Louis Noël was a French aviator and military pilot. He was born in 1872[1] and died in 1939.[2]
Noël learnt to fly in Great Britain at the Avro school at Brooklands, and was awarded Royal Aero Club pilot's license No. 119 on 17 August 1911.[3] In June 1912 he became an instructor at the Grahame -White flying school at Hendon, where he also gave exhibition flights and took park in flying competitions.[4] He was hired as a reconnaissance pilot in France in 1914, and conducted numerous missions along the Eastern front in World War I, including the Salonica-Bucharest route.[1]
He competed in the 1914 Aerial Derby starting from Hendon Aerodrome with a Morane-Saulnier monoplane equipped with an 80 hp Le Rhone engine.[5] Although he completed the course in the fastest time, he was disqualified for missing one of the control points.
^Newcastle Evening Chronicle, 10 October 1939: 'M. Louis Noel, the famous French airman, was killed near Paris to-day when his aeroplane fell 4,000 feet.'
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^"Dispatches". Flight: A Journal Devoted to the Interests, Practice, and Progress of Aerial Locomotion and Transport. 8. Royal Aero Club of the United Kingdom: see p. 182. 1917. Retrieved October 5, 2014.
^"Dispatches". The Aeroplane. 13. Temple Press: see p.1326. 1917. Retrieved October 5, 2014.
^Unknown (October 20, 1917). "DANS LES CERCLES" [In the (Social) Circles]. Le Gaulois (in French). Paris. ISSN1160-8404. Retrieved October 5, 2014.