French aviators

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Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 72. Chapters: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Roland Garros, Henri Farman, Louis Blériot, Georges Guynemer, Hubert Latham, Sophie Blanchard, Charles Nungesser, Léon Lemartin, Marie Marvingt, Robert brothers, Henri Rougier, Ernest Archdeacon,... Viac o knihe

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Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 72. Chapters: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Roland Garros, Henri Farman, Louis Blériot, Georges Guynemer, Hubert Latham, Sophie Blanchard, Charles Nungesser, Léon Lemartin, Marie Marvingt, Robert brothers, Henri Rougier, Ernest Archdeacon, Didier Masson, Gabriel Voisin, Marcel Brindejonc des Moulinais, Louis Paulhan, Hélène Dutrieu, Jean-Pierre Blanchard, Jean Navarre, Jean Mermoz, Raymonde de Laroche, Pierre Pouyade, Constantin Rozanoff, Marcel A. Hugues, Charles Terres Weymann, Henry de La Vaulx, Charles Godefroy, Nicolas Ivanoff, Citoyenne Henri, Georges André, Henri Mignet, Marc Pourpe, Louis Charles Breguet, Dieudonne Costes, Louis Prosper Gros, Adolphe Pégoud, Édouard de Nié Port, Jacqueline Auriol, Bernard Ziegler, Charles de Lambert, Maurice Farman, Jacques Balsan, Jean Louis Conneau, François Coli, Maryse Bastié, Didier Daurat, Jean-Marie Le Bris, Richard Farman, Eugène Lefebvre, André Turcat, Jean de Suarez d'Aulan, Yves Rousseau, Elizabeth Thible, Henri Guillaumet, Alfred LeBlanc, Ludovic Arrachart, Thérèse Peltier, Henri Fabre, Paul Tissandier, Léon Delagrange, Gérard Guillaumaud, Pierre Deley, Charles Voisin, Hélène Boucher, Henri Lachambre, Paul Teste, Jacques Rosay, Laurent Gathier, Adrienne Bolland, Ferdinand Ferber, Michel Bacos, Jacques Schneider, Henri Pequet, Maurice Chevillard, Catherine Maunoury, Edouard Corniglion-Molinier, François de Labouchère. Excerpt: Arthur Charles Hubert Latham (10 January 1883 - 25 June 1912) was a French aviation pioneer. He was the first person to attempt to cross the English Channel in an aeroplane. Due to engine failure during his first of two attempts to cross the Channel, he became the first person to land an aeroplane on a body of water. Latham was born in Paris into a wealthy Protestant family. His French mother's family were the bankers, Mallet Frères et Cie, and his father, Lionel Latham, was the son of an English merchant adventurer and trader of indigo and other commodities, Charles Latham, who had settled in Le Havre in 1829. Hubert Latham's English grand-uncles were mercantile traders, merchant bankers and lawyers in the City of London and Liverpool and his home was the centuries old Château de Maillebois, near Chartres, which his father purchased from Vicomte de Maleyssie in 1882. One of Latham's maternal grand-aunts was the mother of the German Chancellor, Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg, (appointed in 1909), which made him a second cousin of the aviator. Latham had two siblings, an older sister, Edmée, and a younger sister, Léonie. The three children were raised within the small but elite circle of Protestant high society. All three children spoke French, English and German fluently. His father, Lionel, died of pneumonia in 1885 and his mother never remarried. Latham attended Balliol College at the University of Oxford for one academic year 1903/4 after which he fulfilled his reservist military service training obligation in Paris and then accompanied his cousin, the balloonist Jacques Faure, on a night crossing of the English Channel (from London to Paris) in a gas balloon on 11-12 February 1905. He also competed successfully in an Antoinette motor yacht in the power boat racing events at the Monaco Regatta, April 1905, in association with his cousin Jules Gastambide and Léon Levavasseur, the inventor of the Antoinette engine. He then led an exploratory expedition with friends

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