Arthur Charles Hubert Latham was a French aviation pioneer. He was the first person to attempt to cross the English Channel in an aeroplane. Due to engine failure during his first of two attempts to cross the Channel, he became the first person to land an aeroplane on a body of water.
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Antoinette Monoplane, ca.1909
Antoinette's rudimentary 'flight simulator' at Châlons. This method of flight training was mimicked quite accurately in the 1965 film Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines
Replicas of two of the aircraft that competed for the Daily Mail Channel-crossing prize: the Antoinette VII (centre) and the Blériot XI (top)
Latham over English Channel on 2nd attempt
Hubert Latham and his Antoinette IV monoplane at the Grande Quinzaine de Paris, 3-17 October 1909,
Latham's spectacular crash at Brooklands in 1911
Latham in Antoinette Monobloc at the Reims Military Trials, October 1911Awards 1
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Lived 1883 to 1912 · aged 29
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