Georges Besançon (1866–1934) founded and edited the aeronautical journal ''
L'Aérophile
''L’Aérophile'' ("The Aerophile") was a French aviation magazine published from 1893 to 1947. It has been described as "the leading aeronautical journal of the world" around 1910.
History and contents
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Besançon was a balloonist ("aeronaut") and journalist.
Besançon helped train the later-celebrated balloonist
Salomon Andrée, probably in the late 1880s.
In 1892, Besançon and scientist
Gustave Hermite sent instruments on fabric or paper balloons into the upper atmosphere for meteorological research.
["Early Scientific Balloons" at avstop.com](_blank)
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In 1901, Hermite and Besançon sent up small instrumented rubber balloons that were designed to expand until at a high altitude they would burst. Then their instruments would descend by parachute.
Besançon founded the aeronautical periodical ''L'Aérophile
''L’Aérophile'' ("The Aerophile") was a French aviation magazine published from 1893 to 1947. It has been described as "the leading aeronautical journal of the world" around 1910.
History and contents
''L’Aérophile'' was founded and ru ...
'' in 1893, and remained its director until at least 1910.''L'Aérophile'', Jan 1, 1910 cover at archive.org scanned from Smithsonian Institution Library
/ref> There he covered and reported on the era in which the airplane was invented and an international airplane industry arose.
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History of aviation
French balloonists
French journalists
1866 births
1934 deaths
Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery
French male non-fiction writers
Atmospheric sounding