Loop the Loop - Pegoud - Aviator

Adolphe Celestin Pegoud (1889-1915) - a pre-WWI French aviator who became a fighter ace. On 21st September 1913, as a test pilot for Louis Bleriot (in a Bleriot model XI monoplane), Pegoud flew a loop, believing it to be the world's first, although Pyotr Nesterov, a Russian army pilot, had flown the first just 12 days earlier on 9th September 1913

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