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Gabriel Voisin: Quick Facts

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Facts

Born February 5, 1880 • France
Died December 25, 1973 (aged 93) • France
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Voisin, Gabriel; Voisin, Charles
Farman, Henri
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Glenn Hammond Curtiss.
Glenn Hammond Curtiss
American engineer
Louis Blériot standing before his Type XI monoplane, which he flew across the English Channel on July 25, 1909.
Louis Blériot
French aviator
Farman, Henri
Henri Farman
French aircraft manufacturer
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Louis-Charles Bréguet
French aircraft builder
Maurice Farman, 1909
Maurice Farman
French aircraft designer and manufacturer
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Pierre Latécoère
French aircraft manufacturer
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Orville Wright
American aviator
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Wilbur Wright
American aviator
Tsiolkovsky, Konstantin Eduardovich
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Russian scientist
Fieseler, Gerhard
Gerhard Fieseler
German aviator
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William P. Lear
American engineer and industrialist
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Paul W. Litchfield
American industrialist
Eckener, 1931
Hugo Eckener
German aeronautical engineer
Sir Frederick Handley Page
Sir Frederick Handley Page
British aircraft designer
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Vincent Bendix
American inventor and industrialist
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Joseph-Michel Montgolfier
French aviator
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Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier
French aviator
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Louis Lumière
French inventor
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Auguste Lumière
French inventor
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André Michelin
French industrialist

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