// Workers AI · dad joke modeWho's Maurice Chevillard? A cheval-ier.
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Maurice R. Chevillard (25 August 1887 - June 1943)[1] was a pioneering French aviator who set a record on 6 November 1913 when he looped a biplane five times in succession at Port-Aviation (often called "Juvisy Airfield") in Viry-Châtillon, France. He was in a Henri Farman biplane powered by an 80-horsepower (60-kilowatt) Gnome et Rhône radial engine.[2]
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[edit]- ↑ "Maurice CHEVILLARD". aelf1er-lehavre.fr. Retrieved 11 June 2026.
- ↑ "Chevillard Does 5 Loops. Turns His Aeroplane Over At A Height Of Only 150 Feet". New York Times via Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph. November 10, 1913. Retrieved 2010-07-04.
Maurice Chevillard, the French aviator, looped the loop in a biplane five times in succession at Juvisy to-day.