Émile Dubonnet

He participated in the 1908, 1909, and 1911 Gordon Bennett Cup in ballooning and was a member of the Aéro-Club de France.

He holds a Fédération Aéronautique Internationale record from 1912-1913.

[2][3][4][5] He 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 the Juvisy-sur-Orge field and made a landing at Bois de Boulogne[6] He also helped form the first professional baseball league in France, the French Baseball Union, in 1912.