A sculpture showing Clément Ader (1841-1925) stands at the edge of Versailles forest in Satory neighbourhood to remind us that it was precisely in Satory that this inventor and engineer first lifted his 'plane' off the ground for 300 metres in 1897, making him... a pioneer.--------------------------------
Cette sculpture représentant Clément Ader (1841-1925) s'élève à l'orée de la forêt domaniale de Versailles, près de Satory, pour nous apprendre ou nous rappeler que c'est là même, à Satory, que cet ingénieur et inventeur parvint à faire décoller son "avion" et à le maintenir en l'air sur 300 metres en 1897.
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Courtesy of Wikipedia
17 comments:
Interesting. That's one bit of history I was not aware of.
You'd have to be batty to try something like that!
I didn't know that, very cool. It's a very nice tribute!
It must have taken so much courage to go up in those first planes. I don't think I would have done it.
Sharon
«Louis» once posted a story about Ader on his old "Frog Blog of Louis la Vache".
Ah...I did not know, interesting.
Nice piece of art!
It looks like a bat. Did the wings flap?
Cryptic note: The pkg. is in the air. MB
Good for him! And it looks like he loved animals as well as flying.
J'admire ces pionniers de l'aviation. De nos jours prendre l'avion est si commun...
Bon weekend !!
I can't decide if these guys were simply mad or extremely brave. A bit of both probably...
j'espère que tu as pris quelque chose de plus confortable pour les USA
Cool! I didn't know about this dude.
Oh my goodness. Did the wings flap?
Merci de passer pendant mon absence Ciel :)
Baci romani
Elisa
Ohhh cela devait être une sacrée expérience à cette époque!!!!!
To have the vision of flight before it was done... impressive.
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