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Known for. Aviation pioneering. Ernest Archdeacon (23 March 1863 – 3 January 1950) was a French lawyer and aviation pioneer before the First World War. He made his first balloon flight at the age of 20. He commissioned a copy of the 1902 Wright No. 3 glider but had only limited success.
Ernest Archdeacon (prononcer « Archdec ») (28 mars 1863 dans le 9 e arrondissement de Paris - 3 janvier 1950 à Versailles [1]), est un avocat de renom, d'origine irlandaise. Il se passionne pour tout ce qui vole.
Download a 750pixel image. On 29 May Farman took the first passenger in Europe into the air. Appropriately enough it was Ernest Archdeacon, the man who had done so much to encourage aviation in France since 1903. Henry Farman and Ernest Archdeacon (r), Issy-les-Moulineaux, 1908.
The Coupe d'Aviation Ernest Archdeacon. The 1905 Voison-Archdeacon glider of was mounted on pontoons and launched by towing it behind a motorboat. It made a short, uncontrolled flight on 8 June 1905. Louis Bleriot shot film footage of this flight attempt which still exists today. See it here.
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.
Ernest Archdeacon: The 1905 Archdeacon floatplane-glider was designed by Archdeacon, but built and flown by Gabriel Voison. William Avery of Chicago, Illinois was a carpenter and electrician when he began working for Octave Chanute in 1895.
Mar 15, 2023 · Ernest Archdeacon, a French lawyer and aviation enthusiast, sometimes receives credit as the first airplane passenger in Europe after he flew with Farman on May 29, 1908.) Delagrange often flew with his friend, the artist and sculptor Thérèse Peltier, who became the first woman to pilot an airplane. (National Library of France)
