The Aviatik Type H monoplane exposited on the 3rd Exposition Internationale de Locomotion Aérienne (for short Paris Salon) helld from 16 December 1911 to 6 January 1912.
The machine is exhibited in Paris as from the Aviatic factory, probably with the aim to sound less Germanic.
The card in front gives in French that this machine was the winner of the Swabenflug (Circuit de Souabe) held on 11 and 12 September 1911. The Argus powered Aviatik rated at 100 hp was fitted and the pilot was Emil Jeannin.

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The Automobil & Aviatik AG started in 1910. As the factory had little knowledge of aircraft design and building - being a motor car builder - they did the wise thing to do and took out a licence for the Hanriot monoplane.
Seen on the picture is one of their Hanriot based monoplanes, a two-seater with the typical Hanriot undercarriage constructrion and a monoplane with wing warping (no ailerons). The engine fitted was a German made Argus water-cooled engine rated at 50 hp. The radiators can be seen curved around the nose section, nicely streamlined. In the pilot seat (rear seat) is the early German pilot Georg Büchner.

The Aviatik firm was located in the Alsace in Mülhausen (French : Mulhause) and was sometimes spelled as Aviatic. Not unexpected the Hanriot licensed monoplanes were identified as the Aviatik Type H.

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Some pilots have all the luck they need. Obviously the pilot of this Austro-Hungarian Etrci-Rumpler Taube had a lot of luck as he crashed into the high trees (maybe due to a malfunction in the engine). The trees held the crashed Etrich-Rumpler holding it high. There is no record known to me how the pilot and the passenger climbed down, but at least they were quite safely held by the trees.
The Etrich-Rumpler Taube is not that badly damaged, the tip of the right wing has got a beating but the whole fuselage and undercarriage looks quite intact.
The photographer of this scene made another photograph of this machine from the rear which shows that in large letters on the side of the fuselage was written ETRICH - RUMPLER. Mark the central skid on the undercarriage and the radiator seen on the left side of the fuselage.

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Poulet (pilot) and Benoist (mechanic) standing proudly before their Caudron G 4 twin-engined biplane to start with their adventure to fly from Paris to Australia. They are seen here in their standard flying outfit which should have been enough to shield them from the bitter cold in an open cockpit airplane. As told in the text of another photographs temperatures could go down to Alaska like winter temperatures.

The date of the departure at Issy-les-Moulineaux airfield near Paris was 12 October 1919. As ever a lot of press and photographers were present. See the full story about the already eventful departure as written in the text with another picture of the event.

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Poulet and Benoist have arrived in Adana in the region Sicilia, today a part of Turkey. They arrived in Adana on 31 October 1919 after a hell of a flight flying over mountains to an altitude of 4000 meter (!) reaching a chilling temperature of minus 34 C. A great feat when flying an already rather old Cauidron G 4.

Their arrival was sufficiently important that the French commander of the regio Colonel Édouard Brémond came out to greet the two fliers. Apparently the family - his wife and daughter - of Paulet was also present.

Silicia was a sort of protectorate of the French after the fall of the Ottoman empire. The French reign was from 1 January 1919 till September 1920.

See for more on Brémond this article

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Édouard_Brémond

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