Georges Besançon (1866–1934) [1] founded and edited the aeronautical journal L'Aérophile.
Besançon was a balloonist ("aeronaut") and journalist. [2] Besançon helped train the later-celebrated balloonist Salomon Andrée, probably in the late 1880s. [3]
In 1892, Besançon and scientist Gustave Hermite sent instruments on fabric or paper balloons into the upper atmosphere for meteorological research. [4] 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. [4]
Besançon founded the aeronautical periodical L'Aérophile in 1893, and remained its director until at least 1910. [5] There he covered and reported on the era in which the airplane was invented and an international airplane industry arose.
Georges Besançon (1866–1934) [1] founded and edited the aeronautical journal L'Aérophile.
Besançon was a balloonist ("aeronaut") and journalist. [2] Besançon helped train the later-celebrated balloonist Salomon Andrée, probably in the late 1880s. [3]
In 1892, Besançon and scientist Gustave Hermite sent instruments on fabric or paper balloons into the upper atmosphere for meteorological research. [4] 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. [4]
Besançon founded the aeronautical periodical L'Aérophile in 1893, and remained its director until at least 1910. [5] There he covered and reported on the era in which the airplane was invented and an international airplane industry arose.