Georges Legagneux

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Georges Théophile Legagneux (24 December 1882 in Puteaux – 6 July 1914 in Saumur^[1]) was a French aviator, the first person to fly an aircraft in several countries, and the first to fly a fixed wing aircraft higher than 10,000 and 20,000 feet.