page_title: Félix du Temple de la Croix
hierarchical_section_title: Félix du Temple de la Croix
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Félix du Temple (1823 - 1890), officier général, parlementaire et pionnier français de l'aéronautique
context_page_description: Félix du Temple de la Croix was a French naval officer and an inventor, born into an ancient Norman family. He developed some of the first flying machines and is credited with the first successful flight of a powered aircraft of any sort, a powered model plane, in 1857. and is sometimes credited with the first manned powered flight in history aboard his Monoplane in 1874.
  He was a contemporary of Jean-Marie Le Bris.
context_section_description: Félix du Temple de la Croix (18 July 1823 – 3 November 1890) (usually simply called Félix du Temple) was a French naval officer and an inventor, born into an ancient Norman family. He developed some of the first flying machines and is credited with the first successful flight of a powered aircraft of any sort, a powered model plane, in 1857. and is sometimes credited with the first manned powered flight in history aboard his Monoplane in 1874. 
  He was a contemporary of Jean-Marie Le Bris.
caption: Félix du Temple de la Croix (1823–1890).
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