was changed to Aéro-Club de France. The Aéro-Club de France originally set many of the regulations that controlled aviation in France. From its formation...
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Ernest Archdeacon (category French aviation pioneers)
events. His most lasting contribution to aviation is the Aéro-Club de France, the oldest aero-club in the world, which he co-founded in 1898. On 29 May 1908...
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Alberto Santos-Dumont (category Members of the Aéro-Club de France)
Deuxième Envolée de Santos-Dumont". L'Aérophile (in French) (10). Aéro-Club de France: 245–247. Morel, Edmar (16 October 1974). "Vida e Morte de Santos Dumont...
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Pilot licensing and certification (category CS1 French-language sources (fr))
1903. The Aéro-Club de France was founded in 1898 'to encourage aerial locomotion'. The Royal Aero Club followed in 1901 and the Aero Club of America...
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nano-satellite was created in a joint-venture by Rosaviakosmos, Aéro-Club de France, and the Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation (AMSAT) as a marketing...
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Aviator's Certificate by the Aéro-Club de France in 1909 List of pilots awarded an Aviator's Certificate by the Aéro-Club de France in 1910 Robert McG. Thomas...
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present Other Aero clubs National Aeronautic Association, the ACA's direct American successor (1922) Aéro-Club de France (1898) Royal Aero Club (1901) Early...
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Aviation in the pioneer era (category CS1 French-language sources (fr))
and 1902. All these talks were reproduced in club journals. The lecture to members of the Aéro-Club de France in April 1903 is the best known, and the August...
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Édouard Bague (category CS1 French-language sources (fr))
1911) was a French aviator. A lieutenant in the Algerian tirailleurs, he obtained his aviators's licence (number 337) from the Aéro-Club de France on 23 November...
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Japan. The first Japanese to obtain his pilot's licence from the Aéro-Club de France, he is credited with having made the first flight in a powered aircraft...
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Jacques Balsan (category Free French Air Forces officers)
Free France (1946) List of pilots awarded an Aviator's Certificate by the Aéro-Club de France in 1910 "JACQUES BALSAN, AVIATION PIONEER; French Flier...
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victory in 1920 the Trophy became the permanent possession of the Aéro-Club de France. Following the success of the Gordon Bennett balloon competition...
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The Aéro-Club de France issued Aviators Certificates from 1 January 1910 on. These were internationally recognised under the authority of the Fédération...
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Michelin Cup (category CS1 French-language sources (fr))
delegated to the Aéro-Club de France (AeCF). Attempts to win the prize could be made anywhere in the world where there was a flying club associated with...
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Santos-Dumont 14-bis (redirect from Oiseau de proie)
heavier-than-air flights offered by the Aéro-Club de France to promote the development of heavier-than-air aviation in France. These included the Coupe Ernest...
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Franz Reichelt (category Emigrants from Austria-Hungary to France)
to the leading aeronautic organization, La Ligue Aérienne at the Aéro-Club de France, hoping that they would test it, but they rejected his designs on...
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Émile Dubonnet (category Members of the Aéro-Club de France)
ballooning and was a member of the Aéro-Club de France. He won the La Grande Medaille de Aéro-Club de France in 1912. He holds a Fédération Aéronautique...
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race was held on 23 May 1909 - the Prix de Lagatinerie, at the Port-Aviation airport south of Paris, France. Four pilots entered the race, two started...
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The Aéro-Club de France issued Aviators Certificates from 1909. These were internationally recognised under the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale...
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John Moisant (category American people of French-Canadian descent)
Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France, beginning his short but distinguished flying career. Later, Moisant was granted a pilot's license from the Aéro-Club de France, which he...
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Rolls (one of the founders of Rolls-Royce), partly inspired by the Aero Club of France. It was initially concerned more with ballooning but after the demonstrations...
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Beatrix de Rijk (1883–1958) was a pioneering Dutch aviator. On receiving her pilot's licence from the Aéro-Club de France on 6 October 1911, she became...
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Claims to the first powered flight (category CS1 French-language sources (fr))
flight was officially observed and verified by the Aéro-Club (later renamed the Aéro-Club de France). This won Santos-Dumont the Deutsch-Archdeacon Prize...
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unassisted by catapult and set the first world record recognized by the Aéro-Club de France by flying 220 meters (720 ft) in less than 22 seconds. This flight...
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Émile Aubrun (category Aviation history of France)
received his pilot license from the Aéro-Club de France on 6 January 1910. In August 1910 he competed in the Circuit de l'Est and flew a Blériot XI monoplane...
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Alfred Leblanc (category Aviation history of France)
rapidly becoming a successful competitor in the races organised by the Aéro-Club de France He later became associated with Louis Blériot, and handled the logistics...
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Club [ro], of which he was president), Bibescu went to France and enrolled in Blériot's school in Pau. On 6 January 1910 he was awarded Aéro-Club de France...
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Sputnik 41 (category Articles containing French-language text)
launched in 1998 to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of the Aéro-Club de France, and the forty-first anniversary of the launch of Sputnik 1, the...
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especially those in France, were openly derisive, calling them bluffeurs (bluffers). Ernest Archdeacon, founder of the Aéro-Club de France, was publicly scornful...
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interested in aviation. Together with Ernest Archdeacon, he founded the Aéro-Club de France to promote the new technologies. To do this, he used some of his...
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