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Jean Marie Le Bris (25 March 1817, Concarneau – 17 February 1872, Douarnenez) was a French aviator, born in Concarneau, Brittany who built two glider aircraft and performed at least one flight on board of his first machine in late 1856.
Jean-Marie Le Bris, a French sea captain, built several bird-like gliders designed to be launched from a moving cart. He flew the first of these in 1857 on a beach at Sainte-Anne-la-Palud in France.
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Jean-Marie Le Bris (1817 - 1872) http://www.centennialofflight.gov. In 1856, two French naval officers accomplished brief though uncontrolled flight, Felix duTemple and Jean-Marie Le Bris who built a glider shaped like an albatross, a bird he had studied on his sea voyages. Charcoal of Le Bris by H. Schneider. The Albatross.
Le Bris est né à Concarneau (Finistère) en 1817 et décédé à Douarnenez en 1872. Depuis la publication en 1944 du livre d'Yves Peslin Jean-Marie Le Bris - Marin breton précurseur de l'aviation (Les Ailes, 1944) il est présenté comme un autodidacte qui aurait mené ses travaux seul.
Jean-Marie Le Bris tests an improved version of his glider, making several unmanned glides before it crashes. The Great Aeronautical Exhibition, the first exhibition of flying machines, takes place at the Crystal Palace in London, England. It's sponsored by the Royal Aeronautical Society.
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