So you think you know your aviation history!

Has anyone got any more like this? I came across the thread to late and anyway i find it fascinating to learn about things like this.

OK, here’s another. Linky.

Has anyone got any more like this? I came across the thread to late and anyway i find it fascinating to learn about things like this.

Thanks avion ancien for one of the best threads for a long while very enjoyable searching but failing to find the answer!:D

Thanks Michael for the idea and initiative of this thread 🙂

Salue
Martin

It was rather a large glass! But such was necessary to toast the centenary of the first flight the father of aviation in Anjou. A flight of 500 metres at a height of 5 metres may not sound much nowadays, but it was astounding a century ago. After founding the first aero club in this part of the world and creating the now closed aerodrome at Angers Avrillé, sadly René Gasnier died at an early age. So this thread now having run its course, here are the remainder of the promised photos of the Gasnier Memorial at la Haie Longue on the Corniche Angevin near Rochefort sur Loire, Maine et Loire, France.

What’s the prize? Must I travel to France to claim it??

Also, the machine still exists (or is it just anther one of his aeroplanes??)! http://www.musee-aviation-angers.fr/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=12&Itemid=33

Oddly enough, I’m sitting about 10 miles from where Lt. Selfridge died the same day. He’s buried in Arlington Cemetary, only a few hundred yards from where he died.

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Good thread. Was Gasnier the first to get a French pilot’s licence – or do I need help with my translating?

First flight of Rene Gasnier, distinguished French aeronaut and one of the first to acclaim the Wrights in Europe?

EDit: Whoops! While I was double-checking, everyone else got there first.

Premier vol de René Gasnier et son frère Pierre, 17 septembre 1908
http://aerosteles.hydroretro.net/fiche.php?code=haielongue-chapelle

Martin

Martin, if you hadn’t been late to the party, I dare say that you would have come up with the answer hours ago!

First flight of Rene Gasnier, at Haie-Longue-

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Voila! Congratulations, Baldeagle. I’ll post the remaining photos when I’ve finished my glass of wine.

Premier vol de René Gasnier et son frère Pierre, 17 septembre 1908
http://aerosteles.hydroretro.net/fiche.php?code=haielongue-chapelle

Martin

edit: Grat to baldeagle – was two minutes faster …

First flight of the shortest powered aircraft by a french pilot?
First flight od a clockwork/windup powered aircraft?
First flight of an aircraft made completely from bicycle parts?:D

any other clues?

-John

Errr, I don’t think that you’re quite there (and you can interpret that as you wish!)

Something to do with Voisin/Farman ?

First flight of Rene Gasnier, at Haie-Longue-

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First flight of the shortest powered aircraft?
First flight of a clockwork/windup powered aircraft?
First flight of an aircraft made completely from bicycle parts?:D

any other clues avion?

-John

It looks as if I might have set too stiff a task. So I’ll try to help. The location is within spitting distance of the Loire and here’s a photo of one of his early aeroplanes. If this doesn’t help I’ll have to post a photo of the plaque on the memorial stone and see if there are any linguists on the forum (because the text is in French!).

Montgolfier brothers, at Versailles, with a sheep, a rooster and a duck ? Keith.

Caudron, first glider ascent?

John

Is it to do with Leon Delagrange and Thérèse Peltier
This is the first unofficial flight by a female aviator

if so not very well documented or wildly way off?

Delagrange?
First long flight in Europe
At Issy.

Getting warm??
Getting confused?