#avgeek   #fb  

Originally shared by Gazing Skyward TV

This Day in Aviation History
February 26th, 1945
First flight of the Sud-Ouest S.O.30 Bretagne.

The Sud-Ouest S.O.30 Bretagne was a 1940s French airliner built by Sud-Ouest.

The Bretagne was designed by a group of designers and engineers who were based at Cannes from May 1941 following the invasion of France. The design was for a medium capacity civil transport, a twin-engined mid-wing cantilever all-metal monoplane. The prototype (designated the S.O.30N) first flew on 26 February 1945….

Source:
Wikipedia, Sud-Ouest Bretagne:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sud-Ouest_Bretagne

Don’t forget to +1, Comment and Share!
For more aviation content like this. Please follow me at Gazing Skyward TV 

#avgeek   #aviation   #history