Louis Paulhan is known for winning the first Daily Mail aviation prize for the first flight between London and Manchester in 1910.
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23 Facts About Louis Paulhan
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Louis Paulhan's design was so complex that instead he was given a Voisin airframe.
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Louis Paulhan took part in many airshows, including one in La Brayelle Airfield, Douai, in July 1909, where he set new records for altitude and duration, covering 47 kilometres, and the Grande Semaine d'Aviation in Rheims where he crashed.
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Louis Paulhan flew at the Blackpool Aviation Week in October 1909, Britain's first air show.
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On 29 October 1909, Louis Paulhan made the first official powered flight at Brooklands, Surrey, England, in his biplane made by Farman Aviation Works.
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In January 1910, Louis Paulhan was invited to America to take part in airshows and competitions, at the Los Angeles International Air Meet.
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Louis Paulhan arrived with two Bleriot monoplanes and two Farman biplanes.
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Louis Paulhan set up a new altitude record of 4,164 feet, beating his own previous record of 1,900 feet, and won the endurance prize with a flight lasting 1hr 49mn 40sec.
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Louis Paulhan gave William Randolph Hearst his first experience of flight.
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From Los Angeles, Louis Paulhan moved on to give exhibitions in San Francisco and Salt Lake City, Utah, where the Deseret News headline announced that the "Air King is Here to Fly".
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Louis Paulhan appeared in New Orleans and made the first aeroplane flight in Texas.
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Louis Paulhan arrived in Manchester 12 hours after setting out from London, having spent 4 hours 12 minutes in the air, with an overnight stop at Lichfield, 117 miles from his starting point.
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In 1910, Louis Paulhan was one of the first pilots to fly a seaplane, the Hydravion designed by Henri Fabre, and won a £10,000 prize for the most flights made in the year.
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Louis Paulhan turned his attention to aircraft design, producing the Paulhan biplane in association with Fabre, a large triplane which was flown at the 1911 French military aircraft trials competition, and the Aero-Torpille in association with Victor Tatin.
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Louis Paulhan was transferred to the Serbian front in 1915, where he was not only the most experienced but the oldest aviator.
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The Serbian campaign was unsuccessful, but Louis Paulhan is credited with the world's first "medevac" when he flew the seriously ill Milan Stefanik to safety.
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On demobilisation, Louis Paulhan became a seaplane builder, building machines under licence from Curtiss.
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Louis Paulhan worked at aircraft construction with engineer Pillard at the Societe Provencale de Constructions Aeronautiques, building in 1928 the first all-metal seaplane in France, the SPCA Paulhan-Pillard T3.
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Louis Paulhan abandoned aeronautics the day his only son, Rene, died, at the presentation of the Caudron C 690 fighter plane.
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Louis Paulhan retired to Saint-Jean-de-Luz, which he rarely left before his death.
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In 1960, Louis Paulhan was invited by Air France to be one of the passengers on its inaugural non-stop flight from Paris to Los Angeles.
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In 1927, Louis Paulhan was a co-founder of the company Societe Continentale Parker in France together with Robert Dete, Enea Bossi and Pierre Prier.
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Louis Paulhan is buried in his home town of Pezenas where a monument has been erected in commemoration; a wall plaque in Rue Conti in Pezenas recalls his achievements.
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