well as good control characteristics. The next year, it set an altitude record of 517 feet (158 m). Breguet remained an important manufacturer of aircraft during World War II and afterwards developed commercial transports. Breguet’s range equation, for determining aircraft range, is also named after him. He died of a heart attack in 1955 at Saint-Germain-en-Laye. In 1980, Breguet was inducted into the International Air & Space Hall of Fame at the San Diego Air & Space Museum. Olympic sailing Breguet, as helmsman of his yacht Namousa, won a bronze medal in sailing during the 1924 Summer Olympics. See also Early Birds of Aviation References Sources 1880 births 1955 deaths Aviation pioneers Aviators from Paris French aerospace engineers Aerial reconnaissance pioneers Olympic sailors of France French male sailors (sport) Sailors at the 1924 Summer Olympics – 8 Metre Olympic medalists in sailing Rotorcraft flight record holders French aviation record holders Medalists at the 1924 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for France