Armand Dufaux (1883 - 1941) was a Swiss aviation pioneer who became famous for flying the length of Lake Geneva in 1910. He and his brother Henri Dufaux (1879-1980) were natives of Geneva. Their fir ArmandDufauxAirship. jpg st design was a model helicopter weighing 17 kg; this was followed by a large eight-wing plane that was unable to fly then a third design that crashed on its first flight. The Dufaux 4 was their first successful craft.