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    Gourdou-Leseurre was a French aircraft manufacturer whose founders were Charles Edouard Pierre Gourdou and Jean Adolphe Leseurre. Engineers Jean Leseurre...
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    The Gourdou-Leseurre GL.2 (originally, the Gourdou-Leseurre Type B) was a French fighter aircraft which made its maiden flight in 1918. The GL.2 was a...
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  • M2 Gourdou-Leseurre GL.1 Gourdou-Leseurre GL.2 Gourdou-Leseurre GL.21 Gourdou-Leseurre GL.22 Gourdou-Leseurre GL.23 Gourdou-Leseurre GL.24 Gourdou-Leseurre...
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  • The Gourdou-Leseurre Type A, retrospectively named the GL.1, was a prototype fighter aircraft built in France in 1918. It was a conventional parasol-wing...
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    Zéphyr Georges Lévy 280 HB.2 Gourdou Leseurre ET1 Type 22 Gourdou Leseurre LGL.32 Gourdou Leseurre GL.810/811/812/813 HY Gourdou Leseurre GL.832 HY Grumman...
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  • manufacturer. The company was set up in 1911 by the aviation pioneer Louis Charles Breguet. Breguet Aviation was extremely active during the First World War...
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  • Charles Fauvel (31 December 1904 - 10 September 1979) was a French aircraft designer noted for his tailless and flying wing designs and, in particular...
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    aircraft catapult and a hangar for three aircraft. These were initially Gourdou-Leseurre GL-819 and Potez 452 seaplanes, though they were replaced with...
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    Lommerse) Pete Philly Fabian Dech Senna Gourdou DJMC Dynamax Janice Williams Michael "Maikal X" Parkinson Sweet Charles Sherrell Michael "Clip" Payne Lige...
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    Grey, C.G. (1972). Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1938. London: David & Charles. ISBN 0-7153-5734-4. Gunston, Bill (1989). World Encyclopaedia of Aero...
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    (in French)" (PDF). World Heritage Centre (UNESCO). 2009. Jean-François Gourdou, "Tours tolosanes", Éditions Privat, 2008. Guy Ahlsell de Toulza, Louis...
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    (sounding rocket) TV-SAT 1 (satellite) 1970-1973 : Henri Ziegler 1973-1975 : Charles Cristofini 1975-1983 : général Jacques Mitterrand, the brother of François...
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    ordered, most were completed as normal SPAD fighters, with one (flown by Charles J. Biddle while with the USAAS' 13th Aero Squadron) and two may have served...
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  • 601 Aiglon Senior Caudron C.610 Farman F.230 Farman F.281 Farman F.350 Gourdou G.120 Hy Guillemin JG.10 Max Holste MH.52 Hanriot LH.16 Hanriot H.180 Morane-Saulnier...
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  • Thumbnail for French aviso Rigault de Genouilly
    Genouilly carried a three-seat floatplane — a Gourdou-Leseurre GL-810 HY, Gourdou-Leseurre GL-811 HY, or Gourdou-Leseurre GL-832 HY, according to different...
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    established in 1905 by Gabriel Voisin and his brother Charles, and was continued by Gabriel after Charles died in an automobile accident in 1912; the full...
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    2006. ISBN 1-47381-843-5. Gunston, Bill. Bombers of the West. New York. Charles Scribner's and Sons, 1973. ISBN 0-68413-623-6. Gunston, Bill and Peter...
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    located in the fuselage just behind his seat, with either a Munerelle or Gourdou oxygen regulator system mounted on the right instrument panel. Equipment...
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    Alexandre Charles and his assistant Marie-Noël Robert, both of France, made the first flight in a hydrogen balloon to about 610 m (2,000 ft). Charles then...
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    canvas tent for protection from the elements. The ships mostly used the Gourdou-Leseurre GL-832 HY floatplane, but some received Potez 452 flying boats...
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    airboats, Britain began ordering purpose-built airboats from Farman and Charles de Lambert's company for use on the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Farman...
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    (as top manager), Marcel Riffard (as aircraft body chief designer) and Charles-Edmond Serre (aircraft engine chief designer). The Issy-les-Moulineaux...
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    aft funnel, space was reserved for a reconnaissance seaplane, either a Gourdou-Leseurre GL-832 HY floatplane or a Potez 452 flying boat. The aircraft...
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    original on 5 March 2016. Eliott 2000 p.211 Hirschauer, Louis; Dollfus, Charles, eds. (1921). L'Année Aéronautique: 1920-1921. Paris: Dunod. p. 63. Elliot...
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    aeroplanes participated in this trial: a 180 hp Hispano-Suiza-powered Gourdou-Leseurre monoplane piloted by Rost, a 300 hp Hispano-Suiza-powered SPAD-Herbemont...
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    Grey, C.G. (1972). Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1938. London: David & Charles. pp. 47d–48d. ISBN 0-7153-5734-4. Gunston, Bill (1989). World Encyclopaedia...
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    development of existing designs was continued. A second of the brothers, Charles Nieuport, died in another accident January 24, 1913 after he stalled and...
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    Grey, C.G. (1972). Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1938. London: David & Charles. ISBN 0-7153-5734-4. Gunston, Bill (1989). World Encyclopaedia of Aero...
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    trials of his Wright-derived glider at Berck-sur-Mer. Shortly after this Charles Renard, commander of the French Army balloon school at Chalais-Meudon,...
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    it completed the first air link from France to New Caledonia piloted by Charles de Verneilh Puyraseau, Max Dévé second pilot and radio operator, and Emile...
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