Monsieur Pegoud, left, and Monsieur Blériot, right, seen here at Brooklands flying school, Surrey, where the former had demonstrated his loop the loop in 1913. Adolphe Célestin Pégoud, 1889 – 1915. French aviator and flight instructor, the first fighter ace in history during World War I. Louis Charles Joseph Blériot, 1872 – 1936. French aviator, inventor and engineer. From The Pageant of the Century, published 1934.

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