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Anders Bruun
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This was a minor meeting, with only seven pilots entered and a three-day program, held outside Mülhausen, now better known in French as Mulhouse, in Alsace, which was then a part of Germany. The meeting was badly hit by hard winds, but most of the prize money was taken by Emil Jeannin on a locally b...

Hi Paul, and welcome to the forum! Postcard collecting will keep you busy for a long time - thousands were published, and lots of them are available on auction sites like Delcampe. For many of the meetings that we cover postcards are the main source of illustrations. I mainly collect them for docume...

The first national British aviation meeting was held on June 27th - July 2nd 1910, at the Dunstall Park racecourse in Wolverhampton. The meeting itself was considered an organizational success, but the weather was very windy most of the time and nothing very special was achieved. Twelve pilots made ...

The new address is http://revueicare.com/

Anders

The French National Library keeps digitizing more and more old newspapers and magazines, and as a result I've been able to update the Tours pages. Both the "Events" page and the "results" page is now much more detailed, the former with around fifty percent more text. You will fin...

The 1910 Vichy meeting is a bit of a mystery. It was announced and sanctioned already during the winter, but apparently didn't happen on the announced dates of 5-12 June. On the other hand, some fragments of information indicate that a minor meeting did take place one week later, during the weekend ...

I recently found a map of the Mondorf airfield, so the airfield page and the embedded Google map has been updated.

Anders

Oh, the pleasures of running a website... :| As usual I've no clue what has happened or what Google has done, but after one hour's work the URLs of the embedded airfield maps of 25 of the 32 airfield pages have been replaced. They now work on my computer. If they still don't work on your, please ref...

It again seems that the embedded airfield maps don't work, or at least most of them. I will try to find the reason as soon as possible...

Anders