Hubert Le Blon

Who was Hubert Le Blon?

Hubert Le Blon was a French automobilist and pioneer aviator. He drove a steam powered Gardner-Serpollet in the early 1900s, and then switched to Hotchkiss for both the world's first Grand Prix at Le Mans in France and the inaugural Targa Florio in Sicily. At the Vanderbilt Cup races on Long Island he competed for the USA driving a Thomas

Within weeks of setting a new aviation speed record in Egypt he died during an exhibition flight at San Sebastián, Spain. His first aircraft design, the "Humber monoplane", was displayed at the Olympia Aero Exhibition in 1910.