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Early Flight Attempts, Real and Unreal

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

Clive Hart
Clive Hart*
Affiliation:
University of Essex
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Among the experimenters listed in ‘A Directory of Heavier-Than-Air Flying Machines in Western Europe, 850 BC-AD 1783’, was the name of Charles Bernouin, a surgeon of Grenoble, who was said to have flown from a high tower in Regensburg on 15 January 1673. A colleague in Germany has recently sent me two broadsheets, published soon after the event, which show that Bernouin, who has often been mentioned in histories of aviation, should be removed and placed in the ‘List of Rejected Items.’

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Research Article
Information
The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 94 , Issue 932 , February 1990 , pp. 73 - 74
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1990 

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Footnotes

1. A Directory of Heavier-Than-Air Flying Machines in Western Europe, 850 BC-AD 1783. The Aeronautical Journal, Ian. 1983, 87, pp 1–8 Google Scholar; reprinted, with revisions, in The Prehistory of Flight (Berkeley: California University Press, 1985) pp 195–208.Google Scholar

2. Warhaffige Geschichts-Erzehlung, and Je Füsse ausser seinen Beruff, both Regensburg, 1673.

3. Le courier d’Avignon [= Le courier historique, politique, littéraireetc.] 58 (Tuesday 20 July 1784) 236.