Tag Archives: Grande Semaine d’Aviation de 14
Wills’s Aviation Card #46 – “Herring-Curtiss”.
History Behind The Card: “Herring-Curtiss” Biplane. Card #46 of 50, W.D.& H.O Wills, Aviation series 1910 Glenn Hammond Curtiss, in Hammondsport, New York, United States of America, May 21, 1878 – July 23, 1930, Buffalo, New York, United States of … Continue reading
Posted in Aeroplane Factories, Air Shows, Aviation Art, Heavier-Than-Air, Motors and Engines, Pilots, Tobacco Card
Tagged ailerons, Curtiss Gold Bug, Curtiss Model D biplane, Curtiss No. 1, Curtiss No. 2, Curtiss OX V8, Gold Bug biplane, Grande Semaine d’Aviation de 14, Herring-Burgess Company, Herring-Curtiss Company, Octave Chanute, Otto Lilienthal, Reims Racer biplane, Samuel Pierpont Langley, Wright Brothers
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Wills’s Aviation Card #39 – The “Antoinette” Monoplane, 1909
History Behind The Card: The “Antoinette” Monoplane, 1909 Card #39 of 50, W.D.& H.O Wills, Aviation series 1910 Léon Levavasseur, January 8, 1863 in Le Mesnil-au-Val, Cherbourg, France – February 26, 1922, Pureaux, France This blog is kind of a … Continue reading
Posted in Aeroplane Factories, Aviation Art, Firsts, Heavier-Than-Air, Motors and Engines, Pilots, Research, Tobacco Card
Tagged Antoinette Aviation Company, Antoinette Gastambide, Antoinette motors, Captain Ferdinand Ferber, Ferber IX, Ferdinand Ferber, First flight across the English Channel, Grande Semaine d’Aviation de 14, Hubert Latham, Infante Alfonso, Jules Gastambide, Léon Levavasseur, Louis Bleriot, Marie Marvingt, Societee Antoinette
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1909 Reims – World’s First Airplane Meet – Part 2
Okay, it might have been written six months ago, but we’ve looked at the who, what and where of the world’s first international aeroplane contest – the Grande Semaine d’Aviation de 14 (Great Aviation Week of 1914) airplane meet in France … Continue reading
Posted in Air Shows, Airfields, Firsts, Heavier-Than-Air, Motors and Engines, Pilots, Zeppelins & Dirigibles
Tagged Comte de Lambert, Eugène Lefebvre, Ferdinand Ferber, Flight magazine, George Cockburn, Glenn Curtiss, Gordon Bennet Trophy, Gordon Bennett, Grande Semaine d’Aviation de 14, Great Aviation Week of 1914, Henri Rougier, Henry Farman, Henry Fournier, Hubert Latham, Léon Levavasseur, Louis Bleriot, Louis Paulhan, Paul Tissandier, Roger Sommer
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