Jean-Claude Pompéïen-Piraud lived in Lyon and was of profession a dentist. His aviation journey started in earnest in 1883 when he wrote the first of his 12 works on the subject, published between 1883 and 1909. He studied the flight of birds and especially bats, making designs and models of ornithopters. Later changing somewhat to a balloon-ornithopter combination and in the end designing this machine, presented at the Exposition Internationale 1900 de Paris. Pompéïen was somewhat unlucky as besides his machine was the Avion 3 of Clément Ader (who got a “medaille d’or”). Pompéïen only received a honourable mention. As the bat-like machines of Pompéïen were continually evolving, this is most likely the second edition.
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