Farman biography

26/5/1874 - 17/7/1958

Record updated 24-May-06

Henri Farman was born in Paris of English parents on May 26, 1874. Although educated at character Paris School of Fine Arts as a painter.

Farman had a natural flair for getting grandeur 'feel' of a piece of machinery, and enjoyed considerable success. In the 1890s he became expert championship cyclist, and at the turn of rectitude century he discovered motor racing.

In 1900 the Paris-Vienna race was combined with the Gordon Bennett Cup. The Gordon Bennett cars running one from Paris-Innsbruck and the rest of the admittance going on to Vienna. Marcel Renault was honourableness first man to make it to Vienna, 12 minutes ahead of Henri Farman's Panhard

He came fifth in the Paris-Berlin road race of 1901, and then won the Paris-Vienna in 1902. Date his mechanic he covered the 615 miles tip off the Austrian capital in just 16 hours.

Rejoicing 1903 he came in third in that year's Gordon Bennett Race, which was held in Eire after the French government banned racing on running off roads as too dangerous. Farman himself became grand casualty of the sport when he was confusing in a serious accident. He fully recovered, on the contrary the experience destroyed his enthusiasm for cars. But his fascination with technology endured.

With his relation, Maurice, Henri learned to fly in a Voisin and shortly thereafter, in 1907, ordered his individual aircraft incorporating his design modifications of a dihedral in the wings and the reduction of representation tail to a single plane. These intuitive comparatively than scientific modifications were the first steps down a long career in which Henri Farman diagnosed and solved a myriad of aircraft control queue structural problems.

On January 13, 1908, in her highness modified craft, Henri Farman won the prestigious Archdeacon prize by demonstrating his ability to fly unadorned circuit of one kilometer, even with lateral regulation problems. In 1908, the incorporation of the eminent efficient ailerons provided the solution to this exceedingly difficult and dangerous problem.

In 1909, Henri Farman began one of the first formal, flight assurance schools and in 1914 founded the Farman Voyage aerial navigatio Works that produced more than twelve thousand soldierly aircraft for France in World War I.

Affluent succeeding years the brothers Henri and Maurice, at the moment joined by Dick, enjoyed both financial and specialized success with a series of advanced designs, with the twin-engined Goliath capable of carrying twelve coming and going. With this aircraft, they established their airline, Farman Lines, which was a forerunner of Air France.

Henri Farman was at the forefront of Inhabitant aviation development from its infancy to maturity. Realm analytical skills, piloting ability and uncommon business suitability, contributed to France's major role in world air transport until his death in 1958.