On This Day March 28

French aviator Henri Fabre became the first person to fly a seaplane, the Fabre Hydravion. He successfully took off from a water runway near Martigues, France on March 28, 1910 and flew the plane for a distance of about half a kilometer (a third of a mile). Remarkably, Fabre had no flying experience before that day.

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