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Wills’s Aviation Card #76 – Italian War Monoplane.
History Behind The Card: Italian War Monoplane. Card #76 of 85, W.D.& H.O Wills, Aviation series 1912, Vice Regal – Black-back issue Captain Carlo Maria Piazza on March 17, 1881 in Busto Arsizio, Italy – June 24, 1917, Milan, Italy. This Wills’s Aviation … Continue reading
Posted in Bombers, Firsts, Heavier-Than-Air, Motors and Engines, Pilots, Scouts, Tobacco Card, Weapons, WWI
Tagged Blériot XI, Bleriot monoplane, Captain Carlo Maria Piazza, Famous Monoplane flights, First-ever airplane reconnaissance in a war, Italian Warplane, Italo-Turkish War, WWi handgrenades
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Wills’s Aviation Card #74 – M. Jules Vedrines
History Behind The Card: M. Jules Vedrines Card #74 of 75, W.D.& H.O Wills, Aviation series 1911, Vice Regal Mixture – Green-back issue Jules Charles Toussaint Védrines on December 21, 1881, Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis, France – April 21, 1919, Saint-Rambert-d’Albon, France; … Continue reading
Posted in Firsts, Heavier-Than-Air, Motors and Engines, Pilots, Races, Races & Contests, Tobacco Card
Tagged 'Bristol Boxkite, 1911 Circuit of Europe, 1911 Paris to Mardid race, 1912 Gordon Bennett Trophy, Bleriot monoplane, Caudron Airplane Company, Caudron C.23, Caudron G.3, Daily Mail Circuit of Britain race, Deperdussin 1912 Racing Monoplane, Deperdussin Monocoque, Farman, French Ligue Aerienne, Joystick origin, Jules Védrines, La Vache, Morane-Borel, Société de Production des Aéroplanes Deperdussin
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Birth Of The Military Airplane
Even though the Wright Brothers had first flown an airplane on December 17, 1903, they kept their achievement a secret for a number of years, finally revealing to the world that they were indeed the inventors of heavier-than-air sustainable flight. … Continue reading →