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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hards. To encourage popular flying, the Aero Club of France canvassed its first 100 pilots, found 75 of them living, many engaged in active flying. Among them: Santos Dumont, the Farman brothers, Breguet, Bellenger, Dubonnet, Louis Bleriot, holder of pilots license...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Aeropostale's Plight | 3/23/1931 | See Source »

...models equipped with paper propellers. Many later efforts undoubtedly are lost to history, but in 1871 a helicopter of obscure fate was built in France by M. A. Penaud. Experiments were made with slight success in 1905 by the Dane, Ellehammer; in 1906 in France by the Brazilian, Santos-Dumont, in 1907 by M. Br�guet. By 1923 Austria had its Petroczy; Great Britain its Brennan; France its Damblanc, Oemichen and Pescara; Spain its la Cierva. In the U. S., meanwhile, Henry Berliner, Baltimore aircraft builder, had spent a fortune in a decade's experiment, and Rumanian Professor Georges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Vertical Flight | 6/30/1930 | See Source »

Finance?Charles Dumont...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Scarcely a Cabinet | 3/3/1930 | See Source »

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