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Formed as a society for ballooning, the '''Société Aérostatique et Météorologique de France''' appears to be the first aeronautical society to be formed.  It was founded by [[Dupuis Delcourt]] about October 1852.  The exact date of its demise is not clear, though it appears to have existed at least as late as 1860.
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The rules provided that the Committee meet four times a year on the first Sunday in January, April, July, and October and that the annual general meeting was 1 May each year.  The Society published a quarterly Bulletin that ended with No. 4, July-Oct. 1853.  The Bulletin printed several communications from Sir [[George Cayley]].  By September 1853, the membership numbered more than 100.
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Sources: 28 Journal of the RAeS 644-646 (1924); 2004 Cailliez 198; [[Hallion, 2003]], p. 115; ''Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections'', vol. 55, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=I5NHAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA784#v=onepage&q&f=false 784]
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*Organization
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*Organization names=Society Aerostatic and Meteorologic of France : Societe Aerostatique et Meteorologique de France (1) 
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*Country=France
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*City=Paris
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*Scope=National
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*Started aero=1852
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*Address=21 Rue de L'Oratoire-des-Champs-Elysees, Paris (1852-1853).
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*Cable address=--
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Revision as of 19:13, 24 March 2017

Owing to a desire to include within its purview heavier-than-air machines as well as balloons, the Société Aérostatique et Météorologique de France (Aerostatic and Meteorologic Society of France), founded 17 May 1865, changed its name in January 1869 to La Société Aéronautique et Météorologique de France. It appears that there were always still those who favored the original name and purpose and on 25 July 1872, the officers who were of that mind resigned and the society collapsed. Those who resigned formed a new organization on 12 August 1872, the Société Française de Navigation Aérienne (SFNA).

L'Aéronaute remained the official journal of the renamed Société Aéronautique et Métérologique de France and its editor Hureau de Villeneuve was its secretary general. Those who resigned 25 July 1872 included J. Croce-Spinelli and Motard, vice presidents; Hureau de Villeneuve, general secretary; A. Saco, F. Michel, and O. Frion, associate secretaries; and Félix Caron, treasurer. Among those who did not resign was the society's president, Gustave-Louis-Marie de Ponton d'Amécourt, who, in 1865, was president of its predecessor, the Société Aérostatique et Météorologique. Amécourt eventually associated with the Société Française de Navigation Aérienne (SFNA), for he was its president in 1877.

Sources: 2 L'Aéronaute (1869); 28 Journal of the RAeS 644-646 (1924)


Organization names Society Aeronautic and Meteorologic of France : Société Aéronautique et Météorologique de France, La [For prior history see Society Aerostatic and Meteorologic of France : Société Aérostatique et Météorologique de France (2)]
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Country France
City Paris
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Scope National
Started aero 1865 ; name changed 1869
Ended aero 1872, August
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an earlier society, with the same name??

Formed as a society for ballooning, the Société Aérostatique et Météorologique de France appears to be the first aeronautical society to be formed. It was founded by Dupuis Delcourt about October 1852. The exact date of its demise is not clear, though it appears to have existed at least as late as 1860.

The rules provided that the Committee meet four times a year on the first Sunday in January, April, July, and October and that the annual general meeting was 1 May each year. The Society published a quarterly Bulletin that ended with No. 4, July-Oct. 1853. The Bulletin printed several communications from Sir George Cayley. By September 1853, the membership numbered more than 100.

Sources: 28 Journal of the RAeS 644-646 (1924); 2004 Cailliez 198; Hallion, 2003, p. 115; Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, vol. 55, p. 784

  • Organization
  • Organization names=Society Aerostatic and Meteorologic of France : Societe Aerostatique et Meteorologique de France (1)
  • Country=France
  • City=Paris
  • Scope=National
  • Started aero=1852
  • Ended aero=1860?
  • Address=21 Rue de L'Oratoire-des-Champs-Elysees, Paris (1852-1853).
  • Cable address=--
  • Phone=--
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