farmanaircraft

References I've come across indicate that Burri was Swiss, not a French national. The name Ernest Burri shows up multiple times at a French-language website about Swiss aviators. I can't read French, but from what I can puzzle out it looks as though he flew for the French during WWI.

whyaduck: Thanks! We'll change Burri's nationality in the source data and reload the description.

wow the plane in this picture is so different from now days. It is amazing to look at a picture like this and think about how the plane could actually fly. It doesn't seem to safe and the engine must have been very small. Great picture.

a horseback pilot! what a metaphor :) Hi, I'm an admin for a group called New Directions, and we'd love to have this photograph added to the group!

I wonder what the story is with the split ailerons on the top wing. For that matter, what model airplane is it?

I started an entry in Wikipedia for him: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Chevillard

The New York Times on November 19, 1913, reported that the daredevil pilot Maurice Chevillard had set a new aviation record by performing aerial somersaults with a passenger on board: query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9405E...

Isidore Auguste Marie Louis Paulhan, known as Louis Paulhan, (19 July 1883, Pézenas, Hérault – 10 February 1963, Saint-Jean-de-Luz)[1] was a pioneering French aviator who in 1910 flew "Le Canard", the world's first seaplane, designed by Henri Fabre. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Paulhan