![]() In 1933, Mermoz was appointed general inspector by Air France. ![]() Mermoz, his two companions and the mail were rescued, but the plane sank during the attempt to tow it. Unfortunately, the modified Laté 28 "Comte-de-la-Vaulx" did not prove reliable enough, and had to ditch at sea during the return flight. Mermoz, between Victor Etienne and Guillaumet Río de Janeiro.Īfter flying from Saint-Louis, in Senegal, to Natal, Brazil, in 12–, the line was complete at last. During that time, to save time, he decided to fly during the night, using light beacons and flares as guides and his fellow pilots, for once, were a bit reluctant to see him do it, because they knew it would be their turn next.įor some time, as transatlantic flights were not yet possible, steamboats linked both halves of the "Line". Despite Mermoz finding the flying conditions over the Andes to be tough, he became the project's main pilot, determined to reach the Pacific Ocean, and he was able, after multiple stops, to reach Santiago, Chile. By 1929, it had become evident that it would be economically viable for France to establish a commercial air route to South America, so Mermoz and others flew over the Andes. Latécoère's project was to create a direct airline between France and South America. ![]() The Latécoère 25, (or "Laté 25") and, later, the Latécoère 26 and Latécoère 28 proved to be efficient aircraft when flying from Morocco to Senegal, and Mermoz himself flew the types on those routes on multiple occasions.īut Africa was only the beginning. In 1927, Latécoère began building his own brand of planes to replace the aging World War I aircraft Breguet 14. It actually enhances the brothers Louis and Auguste Lumière both as artists and as engineers and highlights the extraordinary Villa family called "Castle Light."įinally we stopped a few moments near the buildings of the University Jean Moulin Lyon 3, the result of the successful transformation of what was a factory of tobacco and whose architecture has been remarkably preserved and embellished.A Latécoère 25 in the Museo Nacional de Aeronáutica de Argentina, in the livery of Aeroposta Argentina It now has an impact nationally and internationally.Ĭloser to the Cours Albert Thomas the visitor will not fail to make the journey aesthetic, scientific and historic history of the invention of cinematography by Louis and Auguste Lumière in 1895 that the museum offers Light. La Maison de la Danse, which opened in 1980, was the first house of this kind in France, the culmination of a gamble a little crazy launched in 1977 by five choreographers Lyon. ![]() Mermoz axis itself is marked by several cultural institutions such as the Media Marguerite Duras, instead of Bachut huge glass facade which gives an idea of the grandeur of the building: 2500 m² spread over 5 floors connected by wooden staircases suspended. The Musée Urbain Tony Garnier, with its gable wall of 24 renovated buildings of the City of low-cost housing became media painted walls, is a further trace the history of this neighborhood. It will allow quick access to downtown in 2013 putting the station at Part-Dieu in less than a quarter of an hour of the historic district of the United States devised a century ago by the visionary architect Tony Garnier as Ideal City. The tram T4, inaugurated on 20 April 2009 and called "green line and flowers", offers a bucolic across the borough thanks to the lime, trees, pagoda, trees and other plant varieties that punctuate the line and the host to the season. Not talking about not "old industrial wasteland" when referring to the many renovation projects in this neighborhood of Lyon as the next urban renewal Mermoz Nord centreline on this east-west as the Avenue Jean Mermoz an extension of Avenue Berthelot from Perrache. Having recalled what is the medicine for this area, other tourist and cultural mark now that area once largely devoted to industrial. ![]() The southern part of the district provides direct access to the town of Venissieux. To the west is the 7th District, whose boundary is marked with railway lines, and to the north we find Boulevard des Tchécoslovaques. It is bordered in the east by the city of Bron, and in the north by the limit of the 3rd District at Cours Albert Thomas and Rockefeller Avenue, where Edouard Herriot Hospital (formerly Grange Blanche), the Lyon Medical School and the Léon Bérard Cancer Research Center are located. The 8th District of Lyon (69008) is a rather extensive area in the far eastern part of the city. ![]()
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