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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 72. Chapters: Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Roland Garros, Henri Farman, Louis Bleriot, Georges Guynemer, Hubert Latham, Sophie Blanchard, Charles Nungesser, Leon Lemartin, Marie Marvingt, Robert brothers, Henri Rougier, Ernest Archdeacon, Didier Masson, Gabriel Voisin, Marcel Brindejonc des Moulinais, Louis Paulhan, Helene Dutrieu, Jean-Pierre Blanchard, Jean Navarre, Jean Mermoz, Raymonde de Laroche, Pierre Pouyade, Constantin Rozanoff, Marcel A. Hugues, Charles Terres Weymann, Henry de La Vaulx, Charles Godefroy, Nicolas Ivanoff, Citoyenne Henri, Georges Andre, Henri Mignet, Marc Pourpe, Louis Charles Breguet, Dieudonne Costes, Louis Prosper Gros, Adolphe Pegoud, Edouard de Nie Port, Jacqueline Auriol, Bernard Ziegler, Charles de Lambert, Maurice Farman, Jacques Balsan, Jean Louis Conneau, Francois Coli, Maryse Bastie, Didier Daurat, Jean-Marie Le Bris, Richard Farman, Eugene Lefebvre, Andre Turcat, Jean de Suarez d'Aulan, Yves Rousseau, Elizabeth Thible, Henri Guillaumet, Alfred LeBlanc, Ludovic Arrachart, Therese Peltier, Henri Fabre, Paul Tissandier, Leon Delagrange, Gerard Guillaumaud, Pierre Deley, Charles Voisin, Helene Boucher, Henri Lachambre, Paul Teste, Jacques Rosay, Laurent Gathier, Adrienne Bolland, Ferdinand Ferber, Michel Bacos, Jacques Schneider, Henri Pequet, Maurice Chevillard, Catherine Maunoury, Edouard Corniglion-Molinier, Francois de Labouchere. Excerpt: Arthur Charles Hubert Latham (10 January 1883 - 25 June 1912) was a French aviation pioneer. He was the first person to attempt to cross the English Channel in an aeroplane. Due to engine failure during his first of two attempts to cross the Channel, he became the first person to land an aeroplane on a body of water. Latham was born in Paris into a wealthy Protestant family. His French mother's family were the bankers, Mallet Freres et...