A fact from Léon Lemartin appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 12 February 2011 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that pioneer aviator Léon Lemartin set a world record when he carried seven passengers in a Blériot XIIIAerobus?
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The major source for this article seems to be [1]. Its full of major mistakes about the aviation history of the time (eg Farman's closed-circuit kilometre is dated 1909, Santos Dumont & the Wright Brothers are credited with being at Rheims in 1909, & so on, and neither I nor Google translate can make sense of much of the webpage, so I'm not inclined to trust any startling claims it makes. (My biography of Bleriot makes no mention of him in connection with the Channel flight). His claim to be the first 'test pilot' is dubious & misleading: Leblanc was making proving flights for Bleriot in early 1910, and imo 1) the deed is more important than the words on a contract and 2) test pilot is a broad term: his duties would have been proving flights of newly built aircraft rather than prototype testing, which is what most people understand by 'test pilot'TheLongTone (talk) 12:43, 24 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
