#french aviator

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Louise de Coligny-Châtillon (1881–1963) was a French aviator.

Born: July 30, 1881 Vesoul

Died: May 26, 1963 (aged 78)

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René Fonck was a French aviator who ended the First World War as the top Allied fighter ace. He was never wounded and claimed that only one enemy bullet ever hit his airplane. He was methodical, detailed, a skilled marksman. He was a fine flier, but his self-promotion won him few close friends. He had a score 75 German aircraft.

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On July 25, 1909, 117 years ago, Louis Blériot became the first man to cross the English Channel in a flying machine, aboard his Blériot XI.

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Maryse Bastié (27 February 1898 – 6 July 1952) was a French aviator who set several international records for female aviators during the 1930s. via Wikipedia

Maryse Bastie, lotniczka francuska - fotografia portretowa (w skórze, w czapce pilotce i goglach lotniczych).

Data wydarzenia: 1929 https://audiovis.nac.gov.pl/obraz/237136/

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Love is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery, French aviator and writer

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Louis Blériot Louis Charles Joseph Blériot (1 July 1872 – 1 August 1936) was a French aviator, inventor and engineer. He developed the first practical headlamp for cars and established a profitable business manufacturing them, using much of the money he made to finance his attempts to build a successful aircraft. In 1909 he became world famous for making the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier than air aircraft, winning the prize of £1,000 offered by the Daily Mail newspaper. Blériot was also the first to make a working, powered, piloted monoplane. and the founder of a successful aircraft manufacturing company.