Farman aircraft

First person to fly around the world nonstop.

Henri Farman

26/5/1874 - 17/7/1958

Record updated 24-May-06

Henri Farman was born in Paris of English parents on May 26, 1874.

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Although educated at the Paris School of Fine Arts as a painter.

Farman had a natural flair for getting the 'feel' of a piece of machinery, and enjoyed considerable success. In the 1890s he became a championship cyclist, and at the turn of the century he discovered motor racing.

In 1900 the Paris-Vienna race was combined with the Gordon Bennett Cup. The Gordon Bennett cars running only from Paris-Innsbruck and the rest of the entry going on to Vienna. Marcel Renault was the first man to make it to Vienna, 12 minutes ahead of Henri Farman's Panhard

He came fifth in the Paris-Berlin road race of 1901, and then won the Paris-Vienna in 1902.

With his mechanic he covered the 615 miles to the Austrian capital in just 16 hours.

In 1903 he came in third in that year's Gordon Bennett Race, which was held in Ireland after the French government banned