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Gilbert was born in 1889 in Riom, France. He became interested in flight in his teens and actually built his own version of a flying machine around 1909. The machine appears to have been unsuccessful but Gilbert took on more conventional fixed-wing flying machines, gaining his pilot's license on 4 Oct 1910. By 1911, he was flying a Bleriot XI. In the 1911 Paris to Madrid air race, Gilbert flew across the Pyrenees Mountains and was attacked by an angry mother eagle defending her young and nest; to ward off the large bird, he simply fired pistol shots at her rather than kill her. On 24 April 1913, Gilbert made a record nonstop cross-country flight of 826 km (523 miles) from Villacoublay, France, to Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain, in 8 hours 23 minutes.

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  • Eugène Gilbert
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  • Gilbert was born in 1889 in Riom, France. He became interested in flight in his teens and actually built his own version of a flying machine around 1909. The machine appears to have been unsuccessful but Gilbert took on more conventional fixed-wing flying machines, gaining his pilot's license on 4 Oct 1910. By 1911, he was flying a Bleriot XI. In the 1911 Paris to Madrid air race, Gilbert flew across the Pyrenees Mountains and was attacked by an angry mother eagle defending her young and nest; to ward off the large bird, he simply fired pistol shots at her rather than kill her. On 24 April 1913, Gilbert made a record nonstop cross-country flight of 826 km (523 miles) from Villacoublay, France, to Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain, in 8 hours 23 minutes.
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Unit
  • MS37, MS23, MS49
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serviceyears
  • ca 1915–1918
Birth Date
  • 1889-07-19(xsd:date)
Branch
  • Flying service
death place
  • Villacoublay, France
Name
  • Eugène Gilbert
Caption
  • Eugene Gilbert sans his mustache
Birth Place
  • Riom, France
Title
  • Top Flying Ace
Awards
death date
  • 1918-05-17(xsd:date)
Rank
  • Sous lieutenant
Allegiance
  • France
Before
Years
  • France, WWI
After
abstract
  • Gilbert was born in 1889 in Riom, France. He became interested in flight in his teens and actually built his own version of a flying machine around 1909. The machine appears to have been unsuccessful but Gilbert took on more conventional fixed-wing flying machines, gaining his pilot's license on 4 Oct 1910. By 1911, he was flying a Bleriot XI. In the 1911 Paris to Madrid air race, Gilbert flew across the Pyrenees Mountains and was attacked by an angry mother eagle defending her young and nest; to ward off the large bird, he simply fired pistol shots at her rather than kill her. On 24 April 1913, Gilbert made a record nonstop cross-country flight of 826 km (523 miles) from Villacoublay, France, to Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain, in 8 hours 23 minutes. By 1915, Gilbert was in uniform as a combat pilot. Like fellow French pre-war pilot Adolphe Pegoud, Gilbert was one of the first pilots to become an ace, an aviator who has shot down five or more enemy aircraft. On 27 June 1915 Gilbert was interned after force landing his Morane-Saulnier fighter in Switzerland after bombing the zeppelin sheds at Friedrichshafen. He later succeeded in escaping from captivity and returning to France. He was killed on 17 May 1918 when test-flying a new aircraft at Villacoublay.
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