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''L’Aérophile'' was a French aviation magazine published from 1893 to 1947.〔 Dollfus, Charles. 1975. ''Locomotion Aérienne & Terrestre: Précurseurs et Pionniers''. Paris. entry 179. (no page number)〕 It has been described as "the leading aeronautical journal of the world" around 1910.〔 Gibbs-Smith, Charles. 1968. ''Clément Ader: His Flight-Claims and his Place in History.'' London: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office. p. 75〕 == History and contents == ''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.〔(Official Aéro Club of France site history )〕 Important developments in early aviation were documented in its pages: * Octave Chanute's April 1903 speech to the Aéro-Club describing the excitement of the gliding experiments done by his group in 1896/7 and of the Wright brothers 〔Short, Simine. 2011. ''Locomotive to Aeromotive. Octave Chanute and the Transportation Revolution''. pp. 255-8. 〕 was printed in April, 1903.〔Crouch, Tom D. 1981, 2002. ''A Dream of Wings: Americans and the Airplane, 1875-1905''. p. 20.〕 Also Ferdinand Ferber's 1902 glider, the first in Europe modeled on those of the Wright brothers, was illustrated in the February 1903 issue.〔 Gibbs-Smith, Charles. 1970 and 2000. ''Aviation: An historical survey from its origins to the end of the Second World War''. Science Museum. p. 128.〕 * The journal published illustrations of ailerons on Robert Esnault-Pelterie’s glider in June 1905, and the ailerons were widely copied afterward.〔Esnault-Pelterie, Robert. ("Expériences d'aviation, exécutées en 1904, en vérification de celles des frères Wright." ) ''L'Aérophile'', June 1905, pp. 132-138.〕〔 Gibbs-Smith, Charles. 1970 and 2000. ''Aviation: An historical survey from its origins to the end of the Second World War''. Science Museum. p. 138.〕 * In December 1905 and January 1906 journal articles confirmed that the Wright brothers had (as they claimed) flown a controlled, powered airplane, at a time when many readers did not believe this.〔("Les frères Wright et leur aéroplane à moteur." ''L'Aérophile'' 13:12 (December 1905), pp. 265-272. )〕〔Hallion, Richard P. 2003. ''Taking Flight: inventing the Aerial Age from Antiquity through the First World War''. Oxford University Press. pp. 218-219.〕 * The journal covered at length Alberto Santos-Dumont’s flights of 1906, which were the first airplane flights in Europe.〔(Official Aéro Club of France site history page on Santos-Dumont )〕 * Editor Georges Besançon wrote that Wilbur Wright’s 1908 flights in France had erased doubts about the Wright brothers' previous experiments.〔''L'Aérophile'', 15 August 1908, quoted in Crouch, Tom D. 2003, ''Wings: A history of aviation from kites to the space age'', p. 105.〕 * ''L'Aérophile'' published René Lorin’s article of 1 September 1908 in which he first proposed the ramjet.〔 Gibbs-Smith, Charles. 1970 and 2000. ''Aviation: An historical survey from its origins to the end of the Second World War''. Science Museum. pp. 163-164.〕 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.〔 Gibbs-Smith, Charles. 1968. ''Clement Ader: His Flight-Claims and his Place in History.'' London: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office. p. 75〕 ''L'Aérophile'' was a monthly publication in its first years, then started to come out twice a month in 1910. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「L'Aérophile」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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