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Title: Clement Bayard
Description: Looping The Loop p. 110 This poster depicts an adjudant Vincenot airship aiding soldiers on the ground in a reconnaissance mission. The illustrator of the poster, Ernest Montaut was famous for his depiction of early automobiles. The Adjudant Vincenot airship, an enlarged version of the Clement Bayard II, was the third ship built by Clement Bayard. This airship covered 289 feet in length, 52.5 feet in diameter, contained 96,888 cubic meters of gas, had a slightly shortened girder, and was powered by a more powerful Clement Bayard engine. In June 1914 the Adjudant Vincenot broke the world’s non-stop circuit record with a flight of 35 hours and 20 minutes. Gustav Clement, the French automobile manufacturer sailed his first dirigible balloon, the Clement Bayard I from Compiegne to London October 16, 1910. The Clement Bayard II, completed in 1911, was more advanced than its predecessor the Clement Bayard I with twice the volume and power, and a capacity of 247,000 cubic feet. The Clement Bayard II was purchased by the Daily Mail for England when it made the famous flight from Lamotte-Breuil, France, to London. Pior to the outbreak of World War I in 1914, there were four manufacturers of airships in France: Societe Astra, Societe Zodiac, the French State Airship Factory at Chaliais-Mendon, and Maison Clement Bayard. all the manufacturers produced nonrigid dirigibles for military purposes. |
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