John Verrept (12 April 1887 – 17 April 1912) was a Belgian aviation pioneer. He was world altitude record holder with two passengers. He was the first person in history to commit suicide with an airplane on 17 April 1912.
Verrept was also a founding member of Lierse S.K..
JohnVerrept (12 April 1887 – 17 April 1912) was a Belgian aviation pioneer. He was world altitude record holder with two passengers. He was the first...
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Chronology".Flight Log 1908 Camp d'Auvours, Le Mans, France.Retrieved 25 July 2018 John Blake."A Brief History Of The Royal Aero Club." The Royal Aero Club of the...
history Albrecht Berblinger Abbas Ibn Firnas George Cayley Jean-Marie Le Bris John Joseph Montgomery German inventors and discoverers "Otto Lilienthal." Encyclopedia...
John Bevins Moisant (April 25, 1868 – December 31, 1910) was an American aviator, aeronautical engineer, flight instructor, businessman, and revolutionary...
International Aviation Meet at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York. There she met John Moisant, a well-known aviator and operator of a flight school, and his sister...
John Joseph Montgomery (February 15, 1858 – October 31, 1911) was an American inventor, physicist, engineer, and professor at Santa Clara University in...
In London, they met Mrs Elizabeth Mary King (née Davis), wife of Edward John 'Ted' King, a licensed victualler, and mother of four children, Edward, Leon...
than circling the harbor and landing at the Norfolk Navy Yard as planned. John Barry Ryan, head of the U.S. Aeronautical Reserve, offered $500 to build...
First Scottish International Aviation Meeting held at Lanark. 18 August – John Moissant becomes the first American to pilot an airplane across the English...
withdrew after the fatal crash included Charles Terres Weymann. Belgian JohnVerrept yielded his aircraft to Védrines. Eugene Gilbert, flying a Bleriot XI:...
onlookers and potential sponsors, including the eminent Member of Parliament John Henniker Heaton, in a field near Stanford Hall. However, days before, the...
he took his seat. Before starting he took off his hat and put on a cap." John H. Zobel, Stardust Falling: Arch Hoxsey and Ralph Johnstone. In AAHS Journal...
23, 1878, prior to his birth. Among his ancestors, Rodgers had Commodores John Rodgers, who was his paternal grandfather, Oliver Hazard Perry, his maternal...
first flight of a flying boat, at Hammondsport, New York. 20 January – JohnVerrept broke the world altitude record with two passengers. He flew up to 1075...