The man who climbed into a small monoplane at Les Baraques, just outside Calais, on the morning of 25 July 1909 was not a natural-born flyer. He was a businessman in his late thirties with a badly burned foot, a long record of expensive crashes, and a fortune he had very nearly spent. A few… Read article
For a few extraordinary years before the First World War, France was the centre of the flying world. While the Wright brothers guarded their patents across the Atlantic, it was on French airfields, Issy-les-Moulineaux, Port-Aviation at Juvisy, the great meeting ground at Reims, that aviation became a public spectacle, a sport and an industry all… Read article
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