Eugène Lefebvre

For the French politician, see Eugène Lefebvre (politician).
Eugène Lefebvre
Lefebvre in his Wright Flyer at Reims in 1909
Born(1878-10-04)October 4, 1878
France
DiedSeptember 7, 1909(1909-09-07) (aged 30)
Juvisy
Cause of deathAircrash
OccupationAviator

Eugène Lefebvre (4 October 1878 – 7 September 1909) was a French aviation pioneer.[1] He was reportedly the first stunt pilot,[2][3] the first person to die while piloting a powered airplane, and the second person to be killed in a powered airplane crash.

Biography

Eugène Lefebvre at Grande Semaine d'Aviation de la Champagne, Reims (September 1909)

The chief pilot for the French Wright Company, Lefebvre was a participant in the first international air race, the Grande Semaine d'Aviation at Reims in 1909, piloting a Wright Flyer.[4] He, Louis Blériot and Hubert Latham were selected as France's representatives during the contest for the Gordon Bennett Trophy on 22 August, after poor weather made the morning's planned qualifying run impossible.[4] When the weather lifted around 6 o'clock that evening, Lefebvre was one of the pilots who took to the sky in an exhibition, giving one of the earliest displays of stunt flying. The New York Times described his maneuvers thus: "Lefebvre...came driving at the crowded tribunes, turned in the nick of time, went sailing off, swooped down again till he made the flags on the pillars and the plumes on the ladies' hats flutter, and so played about at will for our applause."[5] He was subsequently fined $4 by the judges for displaying excessive "recklessness and daring."[4] During the running of the race, he placed fourth, behind Glenn Curtiss, Blériot and Latham.

Only nine days after the end of the Reims event, Lefebvre was killed in a crash at Juvisy, when the plane he was testing dropped to the ground from a height of 6 metres (20 ft).[1][6] In doing so, he became the first person to die while piloting a powered airplane,[7] and the second person to be killed in an airplane crash.[8]

Legacy

Lefebvre is a distant relative of the later film actress Capucine (1928-1990).[citation needed]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Killed In Aeroplane. Machine of M. Lefebvre Crashes to Earth at Juvisy-sur-Orge". The New York Times. September 8, 1909. Retrieved 2016-08-10.
  2. ^ Villard, Henry Serrano, Contact! The Story of the Early Birds, 1968, Thomas Y. Crowell, ASIN B001G8D7K0, retrieved April 9, 2019
  3. ^ Corn, Joseph J., The Winged Gospel: America's Romance with Aviation, 1900–1950, 1st Ed., 2002, JHU Press, ISBN 978-0801869624, retrieved April 9, 2019
  4. ^ a b c Vorderman, Don. "Hit-or-miss Races That Taught Men How To Fly Archived 2013-01-02 at archive.today", Sports Illustrated, 26 May 1969.
  5. ^ Hale, William Bayard (September 5, 1909). "'Bird-Men' of the Grande Semaine Discuss Aeroplane and Biplane And Hope to Conquer the Atlantic (magazine section, p. SM2.)". The New York Times. Retrieved 11 December 2022.
  6. ^ Howard, Fred. Wilbur and Orville, Courier Dover Publications, 1998, p. 318. ISBN 0-486-40297-5.
  7. ^ Crouch, Tom D. Wings: A History of Aviation from Kites to the Space Age, W. W. Norton & Company, 2003, p. 132. ISBN 0-393-05767-4
  8. ^ Charles Cyril Turner, The Old Flying Days (reprint Published by Ayer Publishing, 1972), p. 225

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