Acrobats of the Air: the extraordinary feat of the aviator Pegoud that flight in Juvisy with the airplane upside down. French aviator Adolphe Pégoud ranks as one of the best and bravest pilots in history, and he knew how to wow a crowd. On this day in 1913 he introduced a trick that scared even other pioneers of flight—he flew upside down, for an audience at the Juvisy aerodrome outside Paris

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Acrobats of the Air: the extraordinary feat of the aviator Pegoud that flight in Juvisy with the airplane upside down. French aviator Adolphe Pégoud ranks as one of the best and bravest pilots in history, and he knew how to wow a crowd. On this day in 1913 he introduced a trick that scared even other pioneers of flight—he flew upside down, for an audience at the Juvisy aerodrome outside Paris

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