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Henri Farman



Henri Farman

Henri Farman
HENRI FARMAN
Pioneer
Henri Farman was born in Paris on May 26th, 1874. His first honors were as a bicycle racer and later as an auto racing champion.

Farman learned to fly in a Voisin aircraft and shortly thereafter ordered his own modified craft. After delivery, he continued to modify the design with a series of intuitive rather than scientific changes. These were the first steps in a long career in which Henri Farman diagnosed and solved a myriad of aircraft control and structural problems.

Having learned the requirement for greater lateral control in his prize-winning flight at the Arch-deacon competition in 1908, Farman fitted his aircraft with the first effective ailerons thereby providing his contemporaries with the solution to the enormously difficult and dangerous problem of lateral control.

His later successes in aircraft design and production helped to keep France at the forefront of European aviation until his death in 1958.
Elected to the International Aerospace Hall of Fame 1988