11 June 1914

June 11, 1914, in Buc (France) at a "Concours de Sécurité", airplanes including the deMonge Parasol (flown by Edouard Lumiere) were tested for stability. The deMonge didn't win a prize but it did win its pilot's approval. Lumiere said, "Returning from Chartres on the de Monge, I had 30 kilometers behind me at a height of 450 meters when I was surprised by a powerful storm. I was blinded by heavy rain, lost my sense of orientation and didn’t even know if I was flying horizontal. The machine behaved very well under these extreme circumstances. We floated in the air like a bird and I did not feel the temptation to hold the stick more tightly, it was as if we were motionless in the air as with quiet weather."