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Clément-Bayard No.1

In front of the observers, the airship was piloted by Louis Capazza first to a record altitude of 1,200 m (4,000 ft) and then hours later to a new record of 1,550 m (5,080 ft).

Louis Capazza

He started from Harvest (Seine-et-Oise) and piloted the airship (of which he was also the engineer) across the Channel where he landed in Aldershot.

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During a flight attempt in August 1892 at the Welsh Harp, England, the balloon slipped out of the net, and launched without him.

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