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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...

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?

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