How to Pronounce Hubert Le Blon
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Mar 21, 1874 Boulogne Billancourt, Île de France, France Died on 02 Apr 1910 (aged 36)
French racing driver, aviator
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About Hubert Le Blon
- Hubert Le Blon (21 March 1874 – 2 April 1910) was a French automobilist and pioneer aviator.
- He drove a steam-powered Gardner-Serpollet in the early 1900s, and then switched to Hotchkiss for both the world's first Grand Prix at Le Mans in France and the inaugural Targa Florio in Sicily.
- At the Vanderbilt Cup races on Long Island he competed for the USA driving a ThomasWithin weeks of setting a new aviation speed record in Egypt he died during an exhibition flight at San Sebastián, Spain.
- His first aircraft design, the "Humber monoplane (Le Blon type)", was displayed at the Olympia Aero Exhibition in 1910.
