Monsieur Pegoud, left, and Monsieur Bleriot, right, seen here at Brooklands flying school, Surrey, where the former had demonstrated his loop the loop in 1913. Adolphe Celestin Pegoud, 1889 - 1915. French aviator and flight instructor, the first fighter ace in history during World War I. Louis Charles Joseph Bleriot, 1872 - 1936. French aviator, inventor and engineer. From The Pageant of the Century, published 1934.