Lavezzari

   One of the earliest pioneers in northern France, Lavezzari was the chairman of the Aero Club at Berck, a Channel coast resort town. He tested his gliders on the dunes there at the turn of the century: one was a tailless hang-glider built in 1903 with triangular bat-shaped wings; another, also a tailless hang-glider with triangular wings, was built in 1904, probably based on a Lilienthal design.

   (Span (No 2): 6 m; length: c 3.6 m; wing area: 37 sqm; gross weight: 37 kg)