The Borel Bo.11 was a French two-seat general purpose
monoplane
A monoplane is a fixed-wing aircraft configuration with a single mainplane, in contrast to a biplane or other types of multiplanes, which have multiple wings.
A monoplane has inherently the highest efficiency and lowest drag of any wing con ...
designed and built by
Etablissements Borel.
Design and development
The Bo.11 was mid-wing monoplane from 1911 with wire-braced wings and lateral control by wing warping.
It was powered by a
Gnome
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rotary piston engine.
The Bo.11 served with the
Aéronautique Militaire
The French Air and Space Force (, , ) is the air force, air and space force of the French Armed Forces. Formed in 1909 as the ("Aeronautical Service"), a service arm of the French Army, it became an independent military branch in 1934 as the Fr ...
at military air training schools and at a civil flying school at Buc.
The aircraft could be fitted with twin floats.
Specifications
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1910s French military utility aircraft
Floatplanes
Bo11
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Rotary-engined aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1911