2-492-293 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Famous aviators, cover of L'Illustration, 4 September 1909. Aviators present at the Grande semaine d'aviation de la Champagne, the world's first aviation meeting, held at Bétheny from 22 to 29 August 1909. The event attracted a million spectators. Depicted are Andre Fournier, Ferdinand Ferber (1862-1909), Henri Rougier (1876-1956), Louis Charles Breguet (1880-1955), Etienne Bunau-Varilla (1890-1961), Roger Sommer (1877-1965), Léon Delagrange (1872-1910), Glenn Curtiss (1878-1930), Paul Tissandier (1881-1945), Louis Paulhan (1883-1963), Louis Blériot (1872-1936), Charles de Lambert (1865-1944), Henri Farman (1874-1958), Eugène Lefebvre (1878-1909) and Hubert Latham (1883-1912).