Aéronautique-Club de France

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Founded at Paris on 20 Oct. 1897, the Aéronautique Club de France (ACDF) held objectives including the theoretical and practical study of various modes of aerial locomotion and related sciences, the popularizaton of ballooning as a sport, and the education of as many aeronauts as possible among the civil population. Its official journal, L'Aéronautique, began in 1902 and was published quarterly. The club had a library and museum in Paris, a balloon park at Rueil, and balloon stores and a park for hovered flight at Champlan-Palaiseau, while motorized devices were tried at Issy-les-Moulineaux. All members could participate gratuitously in balloon ascensions. There was an annual distribution of medals and prizes to balloon conductors belonging to the Society.

The founder director's name is printed in the first issue as "E.–J. Saunière"; could this be the same person as Jules Eugène Saunière with the names reversed?

http://acdf-meaux.fr/histoire-lacdf/ https://archive.org/stream/larophile17besa#page/22/mode/2up

Honorary members, listed in the first issue of L'Aéronautique (https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015067023534;view=1up;seq=6):

Conseil d'administration de l'association (et Comité de Direction de la Section centrale de Paris(Seine)):

Comité de direction de la section de Lyon (22, Place de la Croix-Rousse) , Lyon, Rhône:

Section de Rouen (Seine-Inférieure): Hardouin; Bridoux, president of the Automobile-Club Normand

Officers in 1908 included Saunière as president and Roger Aubry and Riberye as secretaries. Saunière also appears to have been president in 1910. By 1906, it not only had the original branch in Paris with 350 members but had a branch in Lyons with 150 members; women were admitted as members. The rank and file of the club consisted of working men, mostly mechanics and small tradesmen, who followed ballooning as a sport and for the certificate of competence that, when they were drawn for military service, would secure to them a chance of service in the balloon corps of the army. Members who completed a course of instruction held twice each month from the end of September until the middle of May and passed their examination received a certificate as to their general intelligence and knowledge of aeronautics. The summer months formed a season of active outdoor work that included numerous ascensions in the club's balloons. In 1910, it had some 450 members in Paris and nearby.


Organization names Aéronautique-Club de France; ACDF; Aeronautic Club of France
Entity type
Country FR
Locations Paris
Affiliated with FAI, AeCF
Scope
Started aero 1897-10-20
Ended aero
Keywords
Key people Jules Saunière
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Address: 58 Rue Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Paris (at least 1906-1913) Cable address: Aeronotik-Paris (at least 1910-1913) Phone: 204024 (1910)

Club member Mrs. Emile Carton made her first ascent by being on board on 6 May 1906. In August 1906, Marie Surcouf (Mrs. Édouard Surcouf), president of the women's committee, organized an all female flight.

Affiliated with FAI and AeCF, 1908 or earlier

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