Background
Born in Shanghai, Zhu was a son of the prominent banker Zhu Zhiyao (朱志尧, aka Nicolas Tsu).
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Zhu Binhou
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Career
He left for France to study mechanical engineering at the Université Lille 1, graduating in 1903. As he was fascinated with the design and operation of automobiles and ships, 1903 also brought about the revolutionary advent of the controlled, sustained, and powered heavier-than-air machines, which had driven Zhu Binhou into this new frontier of human flight. Zhu Binhou gained his aviator"s license, issued by the Aeronautical Club de France, in 1914 at the beginning of World War I, and joined, as part of the French Foreign Legion, Escadrille Supreme People's Assembly.37 of the French Air Service in 1915.
He is credited with downing five German aircraft and observation balloons, and four probables between 10 July 1916 and 7 January 1917.
