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And here's the proof: See this page of the Orléans newspaper "Journal du Loiret", 17-18 January 1910 : Aéro-Club du Centre L'aviateur Edmond Morelle Un des membres de l' Aéro-Club du Centre, M. Edmond Morelle, vient de prendre livraison, aux usines du camp de Châlons, d'un aéroplane Farman...

I have modified the Cannes pages by adding the name Edmond Morelle , the true name of the pilot "Edmond". He raced both cars and airplanes under pseudonym, as was allowed by both federations, and his real name has only been found out recently through a cooperation of automobile and aviatio...

Hi everybody, Nothing very dramatic to report, but during the last couple of months I've added several pilot pages. The dates of the files are a bit messed up because I've made changes to almost all, so unfortunately I can't tell you exactly which. The ambition is to first cover all who participated...

Hi everybody, On the 1909 Vichy meeting "Planes" page there are photos of the Wright of Paul Tissandier and the remains of the Voisin/Zipfel of Armand Zipfel, both carrying race numbers. I have previously had some doubt whether these photos actually were from 1909, or from the 1910 Vichy m...

Similarly to the Sevilla meeting three weeks earlier, this was a small meeting with only five Blériot pilots, taking place at a horse racecourse. Louis Blériot himself made one of his last public appearances as a pilot, before high winds interrupted the action during a couple of days. The big star o...

Two different programs from the 1910 Grand Quinzaine d'Aviation de la Baie de Seine are available here at aviation-le-havre.over-blog.com.

Anders

The 1-7 May 1910 "1a Grande Settimana d'Aviazione" of Palermo is not very well-known, and I don't think anything has been written about in English before, except a couple of short reports in 1910 magazines. This is perhaps not so strange: The meeting was a bit of a fiasco, with flights tak...

Hi everybody, Today I've uploaded revised "airfield" pages for all the meetings. The new pages have the Google maps of the airfields embedded at the bottom of each page, so that it isn't necessary to click a link to see them. However, the embedded maps are only slim versions of the full ma...

...and now the bad airfield map link is fixed...
Anders

This meeting was held in Tours, France, in April-May 1910. Although sanctioned by the Aéro-Club de France it was a minor meeting with less than ten active pilots. Rain and winds affected much of the meeting, but Captain Bertram Dickson and Jorge (Géo) Chávez made some good flights. You will find the...