About Émile Dubonnet
Lived 1883 – 1950 (aged 66). Émile Dubonnet was a French businessperson, balloonist and aircraft pilot.
Émile Dubonnet (18 October 1883 - 4 October 1950) was a French balloonist active from 1908 to 1913. He participated in the 1908, 1909, and 1911 Gordon Bennett Cup in ballooning and was a member of the Aéro-Club de France. He won the La Grande Medaille de Aéro-Club de France in 1912. He holds a Fédération Aéronautique Internationale record from 1912-1913.
Biography Dubonnet was born on 18 October 1883 in Paris to a winemaker. In 1910 he flew over Paris in his Tellier brothers aircraft. He started from Port-Aviation ("Juvisy Airfield") at Viry-Châtillon and made a landing at Bois de Boulogne.
Dubonnet also helped form the first professional baseball league in France, the French Baseball Union, in 1912.
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French balloonist (1883-1950)
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Émile Dubonnet was born on 18 October 1883 in Paris.
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Émile Dubonnet died on 4 October 1950 in Montrieux-en-Sologne.
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Émile Dubonnet was a businessperson, balloonist and aircraft pilot.
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Émile Dubonnet was French.
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