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to challenge the Wright brothers by giving public demonstration flights for free. The dispute rumbled on and in March an agreement was reached whereby he could continue to give flying exhibitions in his Farman biplane on condition that he pay a $ 6,000 a week bond, pending the outcome of the case.
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office in each city, with no more than two landings en route. In 1906 this seemed an impossible feat – the best
European fliers at that time could only stay aloft for seconds. Paulhan arrived in Manchester 12 hours after setting out from London, having spent 4 hours 12 minutes in the air, with an
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was to be held. According to
Courtlandt Field Bishop, president of the Aero Club of America, all the leading foreign aviators had assured him that they would not appear in the country until the case was decided. If Paulhan won, they would compete; if he lost they did "not care to place themselves
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on their aircraft infringed patents. Paulhan flew anyway, winning all of the prizes and $ 19,000. He set up a new altitude record of 4,164 feet (1,269 m), beating his own previous record of 1,900 feet (580 m), and won the endurance prize with a flight lasting 1hr 49mn 40sec. He gave
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and making many flights as its mechanic during 1907. The same year he won a competition for model aircraft design in which the first prize was to be a full-size construction of the winning design. His design was so complex that instead he was given a
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airframe. With the help of family and friends, he obtained an engine and taught himself to fly in 1909. He was issued with French pilot licence No.10. (The first batch of 10 licences was issued in alphabetical order of surname.)
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aeroplanes. In flight he was sometimes accompanied by a machine gunner or, it seems, by a mechanic carrying out repairs in flight. The
Serbian campaign was unsuccessful, but Paulhan is credited with the world's first
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as a balloon pilot during his military service, in 1905 he won a competition for model aircraft design. Following his national service, he was employed by the balloon manufacturer
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The Wright brothers' case led, on 17 February, to a
Federal judge ordering Paulhan to pay $ 25,000 for every paid display. Furious, he cancelled his American tour and went to
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Curtiss. He worked at aircraft construction with engineer Pillard at the
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for the first pilot to fly from London to
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in association with Fabre, a large triplane which was flown at the 1911 French military aircraft trials competition, and the
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planes. He abandoned aeronautics the day his only son, René (a test pilot), died (10 May 1937), at the presentation of the
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technologies for the growing aerospace industry to Europe. They started with a licence from Parker Rust-Proof of
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where a monument has been erected in commemoration; a wall plaque in Rue Conti in Pézenas also recalls his achievements.
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within the jurisdiction of American courts." Paulhan eventually left quietly for France.
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his first experience of flight. However, he seems to have let down
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