Hunaudières

The Hunaudières is a locality of the Mans

Circuit of Mans

Hunaudières are the long one and mythical straight line of the circuit of the 24 hours of Mans.

Beginnings of aviation

It is also the hippodrome on which Wilbur Wright carried out its tests in June - July 1908 before continuing them with the camp of Auvours, in the west of Mans, until December 1908.

"It is in Hunaudières that Wilbur Wright made the August 8th 1908 with 18:30 on the racecourse of Hunaudières close to Mans, a first experiment which was crowned with a full success. as of the first test, the airplane directed by M.Wilbur Wright, rose in the airs. It described, being held with a height from 15 to 20 complete meters, three circles, traversing thus approximately 3 kilometers and half, in 1 minute 46 seconds, and came very easily, almost without jolt, to land with 20 meters of its starting point; the landing did not cause with the apparatus the least damage. a hundred people assisted to with it, among whom Mr. Archdeacon, MISTERS Blériot, the Gasnier aviator, of Angers, members of Aéro Club of France, which announced last year, in the test of the Cut Gordon Bennett; Mr. Zens who, last week, began experiments with an apparatus of his invention, and some representatives of the press French, German, American, English. They cordially applauded M.Wright."
- Extracts from the daily newspaper the Sarthe of August 8th, 1908 (2° edition).

See also the article on the stay of W.Wright to Mans from June in December 1908 in the Archaeological and Historical Review of Maine Divides into volumes CXLIX third series - Volume 18. The article is written by Michel Buaillon member of the SHAM and old driver starting from the extracts of press of the time and the various reports of L.Bollée and the General advice of the Sarthe.

Random links: