French Aviation Pioneers, 1908–1932: A Golden Age, Rescued from the Glass Plates
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