Émile Dubonnet

Émile Dubonnet (18 October 1883 - 4 October 1950) was a French balloonist active from 1908 to 1913. He participated in the 1908, 1909, and 1911 Gordon Bennett Cup in ballooning and was a member of the Aéro-Club de France.^[1] He won the La Grande Medaille de Aéro-Club de France in 1912. He holds a Fédération Aéronautique Internationale record from 1912-1913.^[2][3][4][5]

Émile Dubonnet
Born	(1883-10-18)18 October 1883 Paris, France
Died	4 October 1950(1950-10-04) (aged 66) Montrieux-en-Sologne, France
Nationality	French
Occupation	Balloonist

Biography

Dubonnet was born on 18 October 1883 in Paris to a winemaker. In 1910 he flew over Paris in his Tellier brothers aircraft. He started from Port-Aviation ("Juvisy Airfield") at Viry-Châtillon and made a landing at Bois de Boulogne.^[6]

Dubonnet also helped form the first professional baseball league in France, the French Baseball Union, in 1912.