Raymond Sommer the Lionheart
Written by gearhead on October 31st, 2009
Raymond Sommer was born on August 31, 1906 in Mouzon, a small French town located in the Ardennes Department. Sommer had a family role model for risk-taking as in 1909 his father, Roger Sommer, broke the record set by the Wright Brothers for the longest flight. Sommer’s family owned a carpet manufacturing business in the [...]