Jules Védrines

See also: Védrines

Jules Védrines born with the Plaine Saint-Denis (Seine-Saint-Denis) the December 21st 1881 and dead the April 21st 1919, is a Aviateur French.

Biography

Jules Védrines is initially workman, then adjuster with the Factories Gnome (Driving), before becoming mechanic of the English pilot-actor, Robert Loraine. This experiment gives him the desire to become aviator. It passes its pilot's license on December 7th, 1910 to Pau and becomes Have aviation.

It gains the race Paris-Madrid on May 26th 1911 with a Morane-Saulnier has. January 13rd 1912, it beats the speed records pure in the plane: on a “Déperdussin”, it reaches the speed of 145,161 km/h. Two years later, from November 20th to December 29th 1913, it carries out the first air link France - Egypt (with stopovers) on board its Blériot monoplane. It starts from Nancy on November 20th and arrives at the Cairo on December 29th. He is also the first pilot to be posed with the international airport of Beirut to the Lebanon.

During the First World War, it is mobilized in aviation. It signs its planes of a head of cow or inscription “the cow”, undoubtedly in remembering its origins limousines and also perhaps as a provocation. It specializes in difficult missions, even impossible, like going to deposit French spies behind the German lines then to come to recover them. Thus, on January 19th 1919, it is posed on board “Caudron G3” on the roof of the galleries Lafayette.

He dies on April 21st 1919, with his Guillain mechanic, at the time of a Paris-Rome raid, on board a twin-engine Caudron C-23 filled of 1600 liters gasoline. He is buried with the cemetery of Pantin.

His/her son, Henri Védrines, will be appointed Allier. He had presented itself to the cantonal elections of Limoux in 1910.

Quotation

“Popular aviation, splendid invention, has a beautiful mission to fill. She addresses herself to youth. And I will not hide that in fact of air propaganda, they are the young people who import more. The others are convinced or will be it never. While you, the young people, you constitute a splendid ground, you who represent France of tomorrow. I saw you, I approached you, I know that we can rely on you. You have the air heart. ”

Sources

  • Jacques Mortane, Library of Popular Aviation , Baudiniere Edition.

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