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Hi again, It's been a long and frustrating year, but here's finally an update! http://www.thefirstairraces.net/meetings/be1008/images/poster345.jpg Robert Thelen, Eugen Wiencziers and Emil Jeannin were the main performers of the August 1910 Johannisthal "Nationale Flugwoche", which was onl...

I don't have much on that meeting, but here's what "La Revue Aérienne" (1910-09-10) wrote: A Bar-le-Duc. Sur l'initiative de M. Chevallier, maire, et de M. Collin, président de la section de Bar-le-Duc de la Ligue Nationale Aérienne, assisté de M. Petit, trésorier, deux journées d'expérien...

Hi everybody! http://www.thefirstairraces.net/meetings/la1008/images/poster345.jpg It's been almost a year, but here are finally some new pages. The August 1910 Lanark meeting was called the most successful British meeting so far, with the high point being John Armstrong Drexel's world altitude reco...

It doesn't happen that often, but once in a while a couple of new photos turn up. You will find two images that I believe haven't been published before on the "Planes" page, and one more on the "Events" page. The pages are here.

The Blackpool Flying Carnival was a unique meeting - a national meeting consisting of two six-day competitive events with eleven non-competitive days of exhibition flights inbetween. The biggest names were Claude Grahame-White, Géo Chávez and Bartolomeo Cattaneo. http://www.thefirstairraces.net/meet...

Since a couple of years ago I've been considering what to do with the "Pilot" pages. There's a lot of pilots, the number has now passed 200, and we have a rather big backlog. To make things worse, the pages should ideally be updated after each new meeting. This would mean spending more tim...

The Caen meeting was not one of the richest and biggest of 1910, but still attracted famous pilots Léon Morane, Émile Aubrun, Marcel Hanriot, Robert Martinet and a handful of others, while Antoinette pilot René Labouchère dropped out at the last moment. It was the first meeting where more than a cou...

The program from the 1910 Grande Semaine d'Aviation de Caen is available from the French National Library's "Gallica" site.
Anders

The first Belgian aviation meeting of 1910 was one of the events organised on the fringes of the 1910 World Exposition. It was held over two weeks at a racecourse in Stockel, southwest of Brussels. http://www.thefirstairraces.net/meetings/st1007/images/poster345.jpg A field of ten Belgian pilots con...

Hi Anthony, and welcome to the forum!

A nice photo, thanks for posting! It looks very much like the machine that Russian pilot Michel Efimoff flew during the first days of the April 1910 Nice meeting - see this page! Later during the meeting it was repainted with a larger race number.

Anders