1908 Domenica Corriere: Rhino Zoo By New York; Flying Delagrange IN Roma

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"LA DOMENICA DEL CORRIERE": original magazine of cm. 36.3 x 27, 6, 16 pages WITH VERY NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS in the text (first and last page in color). Dated
7 - 14 June 1908.
On the front cover, the full page illustration with EYE INTERVENTION IN A RHINO IN THE NEW YORK ZOO
. At the rear THE RECORDS AT THE AVIATION TESTS IN ROME MADE BY THE AVIATOR LEON DELAGRANGE (who would later tragically die in 1910)
.
Good specimen with imperfections on the back.
Ferdinand Marie Léon Delagrange (Orléans, March 14, 1872 - Croix d'Hins, January 4, 1910) was a French aviator.
He studied sculpture at the Paris Academy of Fine Arts and exhibited at the Salon des artistes français. The arts allowed him to approach the nascent aviation, which became a second passion for him.
He built an airplane in 1906 with which he successfully tested the first flight on 6 May 1907 at a height of 4 meters for a distance of 80 meters. The same year, he learned to master, not without incident, a machine ordered at his own expense by the Voisin brothers workshops, on which he first flew on November 2. April 11, 1908, he broke the distance record of 3925m and flight time (6 minutes and 30 seconds) on a Voisin he had built. Just over a month later, on May 29, he broke a new record in Italy, this time 12,750m covered in 15 minutes and 25 seconds of flight.
During many of his flights, Delagrange was accompanied on board by his friend Thérèse Peltier, who would later become the first woman to fly a plane. Leon Delagrange created his airline in the same year.
On September 6, 1909, he still broke all records for distance flights and duration aboard the Voisin 3 biplane, making 15 and a half times around the field of Issy-les-Moulineaux or covered 24,727 km in 29 minutes and 54 seconds.
The following year, 7 October 1909, he was awarded the pilot's license n. 3 (No. 1 and 2 were assigned to Louis Blériot and Glenn Curtiss respectively). Also in 1909 he was made a knight of the Legion of Honor. On January 4, 1910, Leon Delagrange died on the Hinsdale Cross airfield near Bordeaux, while flying against a rather strong wind with a Bleriot aircraft.
His name was given to a street in the 15th arrondissement of Paris, located a few hundred meters from Issy-les-Moulineaux, where he broke several records. This area will remain deeply linked to aviation will reign as the headquarters of the Armée de l'air, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation and the Paris Heliport.
He built an airplane in 1906 with which he successfully tested the first flight on 6 May 1907 at a height of 4 meters for a distance of 80 meters. The same year, he learned to master, not without incident, a machine ordered at his own expense by the Voisin brothers workshops, on which he first flew on November 2. April 11, 1908, he broke the distance record of 3925m and flight time (6 minutes and 30 seconds) on a Voisin he had built. Just over a month later, on May 29, he broke a new record in Italy, this time 12,750m covered in 15 minutes and 25 seconds of flight. The following year, 7 October 1909, he was awarded the pilot's license n. 3 (No. 1 and 2 were assigned to Louis Blériot and Glenn Curtiss respectively). Also in 1909 he was made a knight of the Legion of Honor. On January 4, 191