Pegoud
ADOLPHE, a French aviator. He was born in 1885, and following the first success of Santos-Dumont and the Wright brothers in flying, took up the profession of an aeronaut. In 1913 he astonished Paris by his feats in the air, diving, looping the loop, flying with his machine at what had hitherto been considered impossible angles. During the war his machine was repeatedly hit by enemy bullets, but he succeeded in bringing down seven or eight German machines, winning military medals. He was killed in the summer of 1915. travelers in