My prayer for photos was partly answered - I recently came across a nice photo of Géo Chávez' #4 Farman! You can see it here on the Verona "Planes" page.
Anders
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- Tue Nov 29, 2016 5:39 pm
- Forum: Updates on thefirstairraces.net
- Topic: New pages: The 1910 Verona meeting!
- Replies: 1
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- Wed Sep 21, 2016 4:53 pm
- Forum: Updates on thefirstairraces.net
- Topic: 1909 Frankfurt pages updated!
- Replies: 4
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Re: 1909 Frankfurt pages updated!
Nervø's Voisin still carried the Frankfurt race number 8 when flown by new pilot Robert Svendsen in July 1910, see this page!
Anders
Anders
- Sun Aug 21, 2016 7:33 am
- Forum: Updates on thefirstairraces.net
- Topic: New pages: The May 1910 Munich/Puchheim meeting!
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New pages: The May 1910 Munich/Puchheim meeting!
The "Grosse Münchener Flugwoche" was in fact five days, held on the airfield of Puchheim, 15 km west of the city centre. It was troubled by high winds, so there wasn't much flying. Most of the flying was done by Emil Jeannin, Baron de Caters and Ellery von Gorrissen, with Jeannin winning a...
- Sat Aug 20, 2016 4:56 pm
- Forum: Updates on thefirstairraces.net
- Topic: New "Pilot" pages launched!
- Replies: 2
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Re: New "Pilot" pages launched!
...and now four more:
This means we're past the 1909 Berlin meeting and a bit into the Frankfurt meeting.
- Hubert Le Blon
- Hermann Dorner
- Alfred Nervø
- Emilio Edwards
This means we're past the 1909 Berlin meeting and a bit into the Frankfurt meeting.
- Thu Aug 18, 2016 8:04 pm
- Forum: Updates on thefirstairraces.net
- Topic: 1909 Frankfurt pages updated!
- Replies: 4
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Re: 1909 Frankfurt pages updated!
While writing the biography of Danish pilot Alfred Nervø I found a little booklet about him, published in 1910. It contained a couple of photos from the Frankfurt meeting, among them one that confirmed that the #8 Voisin at that meeting indeed was his machine. I had drawn the conclusion before, but ...
- Sat Aug 06, 2016 12:53 pm
- Forum: Updates on thefirstairraces.net
- Topic: New pages: The 1910 Verona meeting!
- Replies: 1
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New pages: The 1910 Verona meeting!
Hi everybody! I have launched coverage of the 1910 Verona Aviation meeting. This meeting, in the town of Romeo and Juliet, was dominated by Louis Paulhan and saw the near-fatal accident of Arthur Duray. You will find the pages here - please enjoy! I would really like to be able to add more and bette...
- Tue Aug 02, 2016 8:12 pm
- Forum: Updates on thefirstairraces.net
- Topic: New "Pilot" pages launched!
- Replies: 2
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Re: New "Pilot" pages launched!
...and one more: Léon Molon!
This means the "Pilot" pages are updated to the 1909 Spa meeting.
Anders
This means the "Pilot" pages are updated to the 1909 Spa meeting.
Anders
- Tue Jul 19, 2016 12:04 pm
- Forum: Updates on thefirstairraces.net
- Topic: New "Pilot" pages launched!
- Replies: 2
- Views: 21431
New "Pilot" pages launched!
During the last couple of weeks I've added six new pilot pages: ⋅ Alessandro Anzani ⋅ Mario Calderara ⋅ Umberto Cagno ⋅ Mario Cobianchi ⋅ Leonino Da Zara ⋅ Georges Legagneux With this I consider set the of biographies to be complete until t...
- Wed May 25, 2016 5:18 pm
- Forum: Updates on thefirstairraces.net
- Topic: 1909 Blackpool meeting course map
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1909 Blackpool meeting course map
Hi everybody, I recently managed to lay my hands on the Blackpool course map from "The Illustrated London News": http://www.thefirstairraces.net/meetings/bl0910/images/course300.jpg We only had a distorted incomplete low-res scan before, but now you can see it in high resolution on the 190...
- Wed May 11, 2016 8:55 pm
- Forum: Updates on thefirstairraces.net
- Topic: 1910 Biarritz meeting pages updated!
- Replies: 3
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1910 Biarritz meeting pages updated!
Hi everybody, Thanks to François Clement I've received copies from the French magazine "Le Trait d'Union", giving a "new" photo of the Garnier "Olga" and some more (unverified) race numbers. You will find the new "Planes" page here . There are still lots of ga...