Georges Besançon

Georges Besançon (1866–1934)[1] founded and edited the aeronautical journal L'Aérophile.

[2] Besançon helped train the later-celebrated balloonist Salomon Andrée, probably in the late 1880s.

[3] In 1892, Besançon and scientist Gustave Hermite sent instruments on fabric or paper balloons into the upper atmosphere for meteorological research.

[4] In 1901, Hermite and Besançon sent up small instrumented rubber balloons that were designed to expand until at a high altitude they would burst.

[4] Besançon founded the aeronautical periodical L'Aérophile in 1893, and remained its director until at least 1910.