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Ferdinand Ferber. Louis Ferdinand Ferber (8 February 1862 – 22 September 1909) [1] was a French Army officer who played an important role in the development of aviation during the early 1900s. Although his aircraft experiments were belatedly successful, his early recognition and publicizing of the work of the Wright Brothers was a major ...
When the first French "Brevets de Pilote" where granted in 1910, Ferber posthumously received No. 5 bis, based on the alphabetic order between the first fourteen holders. "F. de Rue" participated in the following air race meetings: Port-Aviation 30 May - 3 June 1909; Port-Aviation 13 June 1909; Douai 1909; Vichy 1909; Reims 1909
Ferdinand Ferber was a French artillery captain who, in the years after Lilienthal's death, single-handedly kept the notion of heavier-than-air flight alive in France. He wrote exhaustively on aviation and attracted the attention of Ernest Archdeacon, another French aviation enthusiast, who had organized the Aero Club of France in 1898.
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Aug 9, 2012 · Published on August 9, 2012 "To invent an airplane is nothing. To build one is something. But to fly is everything." So spoke Ferdinand Ferber in a dedication to Otto Lilienthal, the greatest of the grandfathers of aviation. In three short sentences, Ferber captured the very essence of flight and what it means to be
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April 1-15 — Ernest Archdeacon tests a "type du Wright" glider near Berck-sur-Mer, France, piloted by Ferdinand Ferber and Gabriel Voison. Although the glider is based on the 1902 Wright design, the wings are shorter, the camber deeper, and there is no roll control. Archdeacon considers its performance unsatisfactory.
Ferdinand Ferber in his "Chariot Automobile" designed to test propeller thrust. Ferber was a captain in an artillery battery in the French Army. Ferber flying his copy of the 1901 Wright glider. In December of 1902, Ferber attempted to fly a motorized copy of the Wright's 1901 glider in circles while attached to a rotating crane.
