Léon Barthou
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File:1912.9.22 - Jordan and Barthou.jpeg
Barthou, on right, with Welby Jordan, in the Parc de Saint-Cloud on September 1912.
Léon Barthou was an active member of the Aéro-Club de France and the brother of minister Louis Barthou.
He won the Coupe d'Arlande in 1909 with a 615km balloon flight with Henry de La Vaulx in Au Fil du Vent. (The flight ended with an accident in which La Vaulx was injured.[1]
He was vice-president of the Commission aérienne mixte, to which he was delegated by the Aéro-Club de France.[2]
He was president of the Touring Club of France, Committee of Aerial Tourism.
References
- ↑ Léon Barthou, "615 kilomètres en ballon", La Vie au Grand Air, Année. 12, No. 556, 22 May 1909, p. 331.
- ↑ "Commission aérienne mixte",L'Aérophile Vol. 17, No. 1, 1 January 1909, p. 24.
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