Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Gabriel Voisin -- a man whose genius deserves to be wrested from obscurity and proclaimed from the highest towers, or at the very least, from this forum. For he was that 20th century rarity: a renaissance engineer. That is to say, he was a renaissance man whose métier was engineering, and the objects he set his mind to stand alone, above all others of their type. They were the pinnacle of refinement.



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