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    Ernest Failloubaz (27 July 1892 in Avenches – 14 May 1919 in Lausanne) was a Swiss aviation pioneer. He received pilot's licence number 1, issued in Switzerland...
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    aviation pioneer. He designed and built the aircraft that was flown by Ernest Failloubaz for the first flight in Switzerland of an aircraft built and flown...
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    was built on the flat land north of the municipality in 1910 where Ernest Failloubaz did the first flight in Switzerland of an aircraft built and flown...
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    Flight. 2 (97): 914. 5 November 1910. Retrieved 24 August 2013. "Ernest Failloubaz". Retrieved 29 August 2013. "From All Quarters (Henry Farman)". Flight...
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    aircraft business, and in 1911, sold their Dufaux 5 to 18-year-old Ernest Failloubaz. A stamp of the Swiss Post published in 1977 is reminiscent of the...
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  • other competitor, Claude Grahame-White, is forced to retire. 10 May – Ernest Failloubaz makes the first flight in Switzerland by an aircraft built by and...
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  • of SolarStratos Armand Dufaux (1883–1941) Henri Dufaux (1879–1980) Ernest Failloubaz (1892–1919), pilot, instructor, Swiss pilot's brevet number 1 René...
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    theologian, critic of the Seventh-day Adventist Church (b. 1840); Ernest Failloubaz, Swiss aviator, who performed the first flight in Switzerland (b....
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    inappropriate for military use. The now much improved Dufaux 5 led Ernest Failloubaz (1892–1919), the youngest pilot in Switzerland (who was 19 years of...
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  • of the military utility of the airplane. From September 4 to 6, 1911, Failloubaz participated as pilot (his friend Gustave Lecoultre as observer) to an...
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    was incorporated. Beginning the history of aviation in Switzerland, Ernest Failloubaz piloted the first aircraft built and flown by a Swiss citizen. Died:...
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    received the Swiss pilot's licence number 2; number 1 was issued to Ernest Failloubaz. On 10 October 1910 Taddéoli won a generous prize at the flight meeting...
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