International Aviation Law

Prelims Quiz #1

Joseph - Michel and Jacques Etienne Montgolfier

• discovered that hot air did not leak through paper

• sons of wealthy paper-maker of Annonay

Jean-Francois Pilatre de Rozier

• first manned flight

• from the Chateau de la Muette in Paris

Professor Jacques Alexandre Charles

27 miles/36km landing in small town of Nesles-la-Vallee

Political Tensions

Consequences of rapid increas in ballooning operations

First International Aeronautical Congress in Paris 1889

• France and Germany

• what led to heightened political tensions

Peace Conference of 1899

• First international declaration relating to the prohibition of aerial warfare in balloons was signed

• The Hague

Paul Fauchille

• Father of Avuation Law

• Freedom of the air

• wrote the treaties entitled “Le Domaine Aerien et le Regime Juridique des Aerostats (1901)”

Ferdinand von Zeppelin

• Powered flight in aviation

• First “Zeppelin“

Alberto Santos-Dumont

• Attached an Internal Combustion Engine

• Advancement in airship maneuverability

• Number 6 Aircraft

Orville and Wilbur Wright

first to carry out heavier-than-air aircraft

Historic First Flight

• Kitty Hawk, North Carolina

• 12 seconds and 120 yards

Johanna Nijeholt

Air Sovereignity (1910)

Professor Harold Hazeltine

The Law of the Air (1911)

Professor Simeon Baldwin

Will Airships Change Our Laws?

Franz von Liszt

Expert on International Aviation Law

Paris International Air Navigation Conference (1910)

First political effort to compose principles of international aviation law

British Parliament

• Passed the Aerial Navigation Act 1911

• to protect the nation form attacks from the air

Paris Convention

Defined the status of international airspace