Potez 28

The Potez 28 was a French aircraft designed in the 1920s to set distance records, built in both sesquiplane and monoplane versions.

In its original biplane form it was particularly like the latter, though strengthened and somewhat enlarged with an upper wingspan increased by 19% to allow for the weight of extra fuel.

The Renault engined machine set a new world distance record with a flight from Paris to Basra, piloted by the brothers Ludovic and Paul Arrachart.

[3] Leaving Paris on 26 June they landed at RAF Shaibah, a few kilometers from Basra, with a broken fuel pipe, having covered a distance of 4,313 km (2,680 mi) in 26 hours 30 min.

It was lost during the take-off for a record attempt, a flight from Etampes to Siberia, when the weight caused a tyre to burst; the pilots escaped unhurt.

Lionel de Marmier in front of the sole Potez 28M