Édouard Surcouf (1862–1938) was a French engineer, maker and pilot of dirigibles, and industrialist.
Édouard Surcouf, detail from a photograph taken in Prague in 1891
The dirgible Lebaudy.
The Ville de Paris in 1906.
The Astra-Torres dirigible No. 1 from 1911.
Marie Surcouf was a French balloonist and feminist. In 1906, she was the first French woman to earn an aeronautical balloon pilot's license and later that year she became the first French woman to pilot a balloon flight with an all-woman crew. Surcouf founded the women's aeronautical club La Stella and served as its president.
Surcouf in 1906
Captain Savoureau, Mmes Dairault, Surcouf and Léon Barthou in 1907
The 'Stella aeronautical club committee. Madames Savignac, VP (bureau), Desfossés-Dalloz VP, Surcouf (President), Vincent VP, Blériot VP, Airault (secretary)
Surcouf (on the right) and Mme. Goldschmidt ballooning in September 1911. Marie Goldschmidt would later establish a distance record of 2,434 km with René Rumpelmayer [pl].