Louis Paulhan
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Isidore Auguste Marie Louis Paulhan, was a French aviator. He is known for winning the first Daily Mail aviation prize for the first flight between London and Manchester in 1910.
Louis Paulhan in 1909
Louis Paulham aboard the Voisin biplane
Louis Paulhan at takeoff in a Farman III biplane at the 1910 Los Angeles International Air Meet at Dominguez Field
Paulhan and passenger Mrs. Dick Ferris at the Los Angeles Air Meet
Farman III
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The Farman III, also known as the Henry Farman 1909 biplane, was an early French aircraft designed and built by Henry Farman in 1909. Its design was widely imitated, so much so that aircraft of simila
Louis Paulhan
…490 ft)) and duration (1h 07m), covering 47 kilometres (29 miles), and the Grande Semaine d'Aviation in Rheims where he crashed. In Lyon, flying a Farman III, he broke three records: height (920 m), speed (20 km in 19 minutes) and weight, carrying a 73-kilogram (161 lb) passenger. He flew at the Blackpool…
Louis Paulhan in his Farman III at the Dominguez Field, Los Angeles 1910
Farman Biplane, ca. 1909