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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 ...
AKA Ferdinand Ferber & Monsieur de Rue. Ferdinand Ferber (8 Feb 1862 Lyon- 22 September 1909 Boulogne-sur-mere). was one of, if not the, most scientifically minded of the early French Aviators. In many ways, it was he who brought about the great blossoming of French Aviation after 1908. A French Artilleryman, he was one of the first Frenchmen ...
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
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
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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.
Louis Ferdinand Ferber (February 8, 1862 - September 22, 1909) Louis Ferber was the greatest forerunner of practical aviation in France. He was the first Frenchman to build life-size gliders and to test them methodically; he attempted to catch up - without their rigorous experimentation but following the same principles - with Lilienthal, Chanute and the Wrights in the experimental cycle which ...
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