But in 1956, Jacques Corneon, a French Air Force officer and technical representative for one of France's largest aircraft companies, Sued West, facilitated Brown's experiments in a vacuum in the Montgolfier facility in Paris.
In fact, a 1956 article for Jane's Defense Weekly states,
And in 1956, he, along with Jacques Cornelion, convinced none other than Townsend Brown to come to France to prove that his experiments worked in a vacuum.