Rapport Officiel sur la Deuxieme Exposition Internationale de Locomotion Aerienne: Organisee par l'Association des Industriels de la Locomotion Aerienne au Grand-Palais, 15 Octobre-2 Novembre 1910..

Paris: Librairie Aeronautique, 1911. First edition. Quarto (9 x 12 3/4 inches). [88] pp. with aeronautical photographic illustrations on virtually every page. Publisher's bright red cloth with black borders, front cover bearing a ornate gilt frame with gilt lettering inside, light brown endpapers. Gilt signed on the lower front cover "Librairie A. Pigoreau". Only six copies located by OCLC. A wonderful copy.There are chapters on the architecture of the exhibition, aerial photography, aeroplane motors and the physiology of flight but the most important chapter is that of the planes exhibited in Paris in 1910; The were: Antoinette, Astra, Bleriot, Breguet, Coanda, Deperdussin, Esnault-Pelterie, Fabre, Henri Farman, Maurice Farman, Goupy, Hanriot, Koechlin, Liore, Nieuport, Paulhan, Pischoff, Santos-Dumont, Saulnier, Sloan, Sommer, Tellier, Vinet, Voisin, A full page is devoted to the description of each aircraft and each has a large photographic illustration. Some of these planes have the distinction of being aviation firsts:Henri Marie Coanda was a Romanian inventor, aerodynamics pioneer, and builder of an experimental aircraft, the Coanda-1910, described by Coanda in the mid-1950s as the world's first jet, a controversial claim disputed by some and supported by others. In 1910, in the workshop of Gianni Caproni, he designed and built an aircraft known as the Coanda-1910, which he displayed publicly at the Second International Aeronautic Salon in Paris that year. The aircraft used a 4-cylinder piston engine to power a rotary compressor which was intended to propel the craft by a combination of suction at the front and airflow out the rear instead of using a propeller. The weird-looking flying machine was called the “Turbo-Propulseur” by its inventor.Henri Fabre showed his famous hydroplane for the first time at this exhibition. On 28 March 1910, Frenchman Henri Fabre flew the first successful powered seaplane, the Gnome Omega-powered Hydravion, a trimaran floatplane. On that day, he completed four consecutive flights, the longest about 600 meters. the Hydravion has survived and is displayed in the Musée de l'Air in Paris. Henri Fabre was soon contacted by Glenn Curtiss and Gabriel Voisin who used his invention to develop their own seaplanes.Two of the planes shown, the Nieuport IV and the Bleriot, were the first planes used in war. The first use of airplanes in an actual war occurred in the 1911 Italo-Turkish War with Italian Army Air Corps Blériot XI and Nieuport IV monoplanes bombing a Turkish camp at Ain Zara, Libya.