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Auction: 4020 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 45

A French Aeronautical Souvenir Plate A china plate, circa 1909-10, depicting an early Voisin aircraft in flight (one crack approximately 4 in. long) Estimate £ 30-40 The brothers Charles and Gabriel Voisin established the first successful aeroplane factory in France, after a brief and unsuccessful attempt to collaborate with Blériot in 1906-07. Their designs were derived from the man-carrying box-kites of the 19th Century, with a very characteristic box-like tail unit. In 1908, the popular Anglo-French aviator Henry (or Henri) Farman won the Archdeacon Prize for the first aircraft to fly a one-kilometre circuit, using a Voisin aeroplane modified to his own specification, and at the Rheims air show of August 1909, he broke the World endurance record, again using a modified Voisin.

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