Today In History:  26 September  [1939]   --  The Levasseur PL.108 makes it's first flight

The Levasseur PL.10 was a carrier-based reconnaissance aircraft developed in France in the late 1920s.[1] It was a conventional, single-bay biplane along similar lines to Levasseur's contemporary designs for the French navy, including a watertight, boat-shaped fuselage, small underwing floats, and undercarriage that could be jettisoned in flight in order to improve the chances of a successful ditching.

The PL108 was a later variant  designed a s torpedo bomber and featured an enclosed cockpit, new lower wing, sandpatted undercarriage. Only one prototype was built.

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