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    Joseph Sadi-Lecointe (1891 – 1944) was a French aviator, best known for breaking a number of speed and altitude records in the 1920s. Sadi-Lecointe was...
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  • Dominic Sadi (born 2003), English football player Hakim Sadi (born 1992), Algerian athlete Joseph Sadi-Lecointe (1891–1944), French aviator Mohamed Sadi (born...
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    Belyakov and Marmain 1994, pp. 298, 300. Taylor, Michael. "Obituary Colonel Joseph 'Joe' W. Rogers, USF (Ret) Record-breaking Famed Aviator Dies at Age 81"...
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  • (1783–1858), French architect Joseph Sadi-Lecointe (1891–1944), French aviator Lucien Lecointe (1867–1940), French politician Matt Lecointe (born 1994), English...
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    altitude. 1784-06-23: 4 km (13,123 ft); Pilâtre de Rozier and the chemist Joseph Proust in a Montgolfier. 1803-07-18: 7.28 km (23,900 ft); Étienne-Gaspard...
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    team won the race three times in succession. Accordingly, after Joseph Sadi-Lecointe's victory in 1920 the Trophy became the permanent possession of the...
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  • Jan-Michael Vincent, actor, in Denver, Colorado (d. 2019) Died: Joseph Sadi-Lecointe, 53, French aviator (died from torture by the Gestapo) Adolf Hitler...
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  • airlines and the professionals unions" APNA has been created in 1927 by Joseph Sadi-Lecointe. During many years, it was the only non-profit organization to represent...
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  • with Grands Express Aériens (CGEA). January 1 The French aviator Joseph Sadi-Lecointe sets a new air speed record, averaging 335 km/h (208 mph) at Istres...
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  • July 14 – Asmahan, Syrian-born Egyptian singer (b.1912) July 15 – Joseph Sadi-Lecointe, French aviator (b. 1891) July 16 – Moncena Dunn, American inventor...
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    Preceded by Joseph Sadi-Lecointe Human altitude record 1926-1927 Succeeded by Hawthorne C. Gray...
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    First flight to sustain a speed over 200 mph (170 kn; 320 km/h): Joseph Sadi-Lecointe flew a Nieuport-Delage Sesquiplan racer over a distance of 100 km...
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    exceed 200 mph (320 km/h) in level flight, while in the hands of Joseph Sadi-Lecointe. At this time, Nieuport became Nieuport-Astra, with the absorption...
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  • Oswald Boelcke, German fighter ace (died 1916 in action) 11 July – Joseph Sadi-Lecointe, French aviator (died 1944) July 30 – Roderic Dallas, Australian...
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    the crash at the end of the flight. The following year, 1920, with Joseph Sadi-Lecointe, Coli made further long-distance flights around the Mediterranean...
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  • (194.49 mph) France Joseph Sadi-Lecointe Nieuport-Delage 29v December 12, 1920 1921 330 km/h (205.22 mph) France Joseph Sadi-Lecointe Nieuport-Delage September...
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    two-seat aircraft, with a speed of 230 km/h (143 mph), and in July 1919 Joseph Sadi-Lecointe set an altitude record of 8,900 m (29,200 ft) in one. This was the...
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    Meurthe, where he had planned to reclaim the world speed record from Joseph Sadi-Lecointe. According to witnesses from the ground, it appeared that Romanet...
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  • leaving Paris. Flying the Nieuport-Delage NiD 42S, the French pilot Joseph Sadi-Lecointe wins the Coupe Beaumont race as the only finisher, then continues...
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    remaining international aviation race in 1920, after the French pilot Joseph Sadi-Lecointe had secured his country's third consecutive victory in the Gordon...
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    Meurthe competition. Three NiD 29s were modified for reserve Captain Joseph Sadi-Lecointe in November 1925 and used on seventy sorties against insurgents in...
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  • politician and Resistance leader (executed) (born 1885) 15 July – Joseph Sadi-Lecointe, aviator (born 1891) 31 July – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, pilot and...
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  • and back in 6 hours 32 minutes in an Airco DH.4A. September 20 – Joseph Sadi-Lecointe makes the first flight of over 200 mph (320 km/h), flying a Nieuport-Delage...
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    at that time for this category had been set up by the Frenchman Joseph Sadi-Lecointe, with a Nieuport-Delâge airplane. The record-breaking attempt was...
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    the upper surface of the wing. One of these aircraft was flown by Joseph Sadi-Lecointe in the race of 22 June and was the only one out of the five entrants...
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    with his former prime minister, Viktor Pepelyayev. French aviator Joseph Sadi-Lecointe set a new record for fastest time to travel one kilometer — 13.05...
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    been a 187-day, 49-stop flight has been made in Tokyo. October 18 Joseph Sadi-Lecointe wins the Beumont Cup, with a speed of 194 mph (312 km/h). American...
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    - Joseph Le Brix 1927 - Charles Lindbergh 1923 - Louis Bréguet, Pierre-Georges Latécoère, Dieudonné Costes 1922 - Clément Ader 1920 - Joseph Sadi-Lecointe...
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    used to test Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity. French aviator Joseph Sadi-Lecointe became the first person to travel faster than 200 miles per hour...
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    at the 1914 market price rather than that of 1923. French pilot Joseph Sadi-Lecointe flew faster than any person ever before, setting a new speed record...
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