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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.
- 23 March 1863, Paris, France
- Aviation pioneering
- 3 January 1950 (aged 86), Versailles, France
- Lawyer
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.
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.
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.
Ernest Archdeacon, a lawyer and balloonist, wrote, " Will the homeland of Montgolfier suffer the shame of allowing this ultimate discovery of aerial science -- which is certainly imminent, and will constitute the greatest scientific revolution since the beginning of the world -- to be realized abroad?"
This was a prize that Ernest Archdeacon had offered to the aviator who made the longest flight during the year. On 19 November1907, Farman made a run at the Grand Prix de Aviation, the prize offered by Ernest Archdeacon and Henry Deutsch de la Meurthe for the first closed-circuit flight of over one kilometer. However, Farman didn't quite ...
Oct 26, 2023 · 26 October 1907: At Issy-les-Moulineaux, France, Henry Farman flew his Voisin-Farman I airplane a distance of approximately 771 meters (2,530 feet) in 52 seconds to win the Coupe d’Aviation Ernest Archdeacon (Ernest Archdeacon Cup) for the longest flight of the year.
