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French aeronaut and journalist '''Georges Besançon''' (1866–1934) founded and edited the aeronautical journal ''[[L'Aérophile]]''.<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Besan%C3%A7on English Wikipedia article on Georges Besançon], written mainly by [[User:Econterms]]</ref>
 
French aeronaut and journalist '''Georges Besançon''' (1866–1934) founded and edited the aeronautical journal ''[[L'Aérophile]]''.<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Besan%C3%A7on English Wikipedia article on Georges Besançon], written mainly by [[User:Econterms]]</ref>

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Georges Besançon in 1920

French aeronaut and journalist Georges Besançon (1866–1934) founded and edited the aeronautical journal L'Aérophile.[1]

Besançon helped train celebrated balloonist Salomon Andrée, probably in the late 1880s.[2]

In 1892, Besançon and scientist Gustave Hermite sent instruments on fabric or paper balloons into the upper atmosphere for meteorological research.[3]

In 1901, Hermite and Besançon sent up small instrumented rubber balloons that were designed to expand until at a high altitude they would burst. Then their instruments would descend by parachute.[3]

Besançon founded the aeronautical periodical L'Aérophile in 1893, and remained its director until at least 1910.[4] There he covered and reported on the era in which the airplane was invented and an international airplane industry arose.


Publications by or about Georges Besançon

References

  1. ↑ English Wikipedia article on Georges Besançon, written mainly by User:Econterms
  2. ↑ Czech, Kenneth P. "Swedish-Led Artic Expedition in a Balloon Led to a Tragic End" at historynet.com, originally from Aviation History magazine
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Early Scientific Balloons" at avstop.com
  4. ↑ L'Aérophile, Jan 1, 1910 cover at archive.org scanned from Smithsonian Institution Library
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