L'Aérophile
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| Editor | Georges Besançon, Wilfrid de Fonvielle, Emmanuel Aimé |
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| Frequency | Monthly; weekly |
| Publisher | Aéro-Club de France, Blondel la Rougery |
| First issue | 1893 |
| Final issue | 1947 |
| Country | France |
| Based in | Paris |
| Language | French |
L’Aérophile was a French aviation magazine published from 1893 to 1947. It has been described as "the leading aeronautical journal of the world" around 1910.
L’Aérophile was founded and run for many years by Georges Besançon. In 1898 it became the official journal of the Aéro Club of France.
Important developments in early aviation were documented in its pages:
Historian Charles Gibbs-Smith criticised L’Aérophile for not publishing the official report on the tests of Clément Ader’s 1897 Avion III when this report was finally made public in 1910, and thus failing to oppose the claim that Ader's machine had made a controlled flight in 1897.
L'Aérophile was a monthly publication in its first years, then started to come out twice a month in 1910.
From 1893-4, L'Aérophile was associated with the Union aérophile de France. Starting at the end of 1898 it was the official journal of the Aero Club of France. In later years it was also an official publication of the alumni association (Association des anciens élèves) of the French national aeronautical college (École nationale supérieure de l'aéronautique).
Some early issues have been scanned and are available at archive.org thanks to the Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Other issues are online at google books.
Some portion of the L'Aérophile archives are kept by the US Library of Congress.
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