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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 ...
- 8 February 1862
- Captain
- Chevalier of the Legion of Honour
- French Army
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Ferdinand Ferber, learns of Octave Chanute's work from a published lecture, contacts Chanute, and Chanute tells Ferber of the Wright brothers. Ferber begins to correspond with the brothers and builds a copy of their 1901 glider as he understands it from the photos Chanute has sent him. Although Ferber is aware the Wright glider had roll control ...
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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.
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
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. Ferdinand Ferber was born in Lyon in 1862. After completing his education at the Ecole Polytechnique he joined the French Army. He made steady progress and eventually became commander of the Alpine Artillery Battery at Nice. Ferber became interested in aviation after reading Otto Lilienthal's Bird Flight as a Basis for Aviation.
