These the farmer interpreted to be feathers of the bird raining down. Gilbert responded by dropping pamphlets for an advertising campaign "Our future is in the Air" organized by the Michelin firm to promote the military use of aviation. The newspaper Airline Journal reported that flying over Brioude, Gilbert was shot at by an eighty-three year old farmer who took him for "Baret Lou", a demonic bird of prey that casts a curse on crops.
Antoine Dorel, president of the Automobile Club d'Auvergne. In 1912 Gilbert organized an aviation festival with Dr. In the 1911 Paris to Madrid air race, Gilbert flew across the Pyrenees and was attacked by an angry mother eagle defending her young and nest to ward off the large bird, he simply fired pistol shots at it rather than kill it. He was forced to leave the army after six months of service following a serious accident during a maneuver, and launched himself at once in sporting competitions where he quickly distinguished himself, flying a Bleriot XI. In 1911 Gilbert was called up for military service and with only eight flying lessons made a corporal-aviator.
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That same year he entered the Bleriot flight school in Étampes, gaining his pilot's license on 24 September 1910 The effort appears to have been unsuccessful. He became interested in flight in his teens and attempted to build his own version of a flying machine around 1909. His mother, Henriette Françoise Gilbert was the daughter of a public works contractor his father is unknown. Gilbert was born on 19 July 1889 in Riom, France. Gilbert with Morane-Saulnier combat monoplane during WW1
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