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Originally Posted by Aquilius
And please tell us a bit about.
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- Bamboo construction
- 50 hp Antoinette
- 400 kg total weight
On September 22, 1909 at Boulogne, while preparing for a cross-channel attempt, Capitaine (Louis) Ferdinand Ferber, b.1862, was killed on this machine when after a half-hour flight it overturned after striking a mound during his landing. Ferber ended up under the engine but was successfully extricated from the wreck and appeared to have suffered no ill effects. However, a short while later he complained of pain and was taken to the field's ambulance shed.
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'I was foolish,' he told those who were with him there. 'I was flying too low. It was my own fault and it will be a severe lesson to me. I wanted to turn round, and was only five metres from the ground.' A little after this, he got up from the couch on which he had been placed, and almost immediately collapsed, dying five minutes later.
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And... looking at the horizon of the challenge photograph, I'd say it was taken at Issy-les-Moulineaux, likely in 1908.
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Cheers