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.
Tags: 1912 Austro-Hungary Etrich Etrich-Rumpler Taube central skid crash
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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.
Tags: 1919 Benoist Caudron G 4 Issy-les-Moulineaux Poulet
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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
Tags: 1919 Adana Benoist Bremond Caudron G 4 Poulet Silicia Turkey twin-engined
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Maurice Allard in the pilot seat of an early type Caudron tractor biplane. This design of Caudron was improved upon in the years before the start of the war. The basic system was a tractor biplane where the engine together with the pilot (rear seat) and passenger (front seat) were in a central nacelle 'hanging' between the wings. The tail section was suppoeted by a twin boom construction, the underside acting is a very secure fit on the ground when standing on the ground.
Early Caudron types were identified by letters, sometimes in combination with numbers. So this series reached it end in the Type G 3, the famous of these Caudron types which was built in large numbers in France and abroad.
Maurice Allard acqured flying licence of the Aéroclub de France No. 480 on 29 April 1911. He became probably the works pilot of the Caudron factory.
Tags: Allard Biplane Caudron Pre-1914 Tractor
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This German Gotha WD 7 two-seat twin-engined floatplane - Marinenummer 119 - did not return on 4 April 1916 to its base Zeebrugge in Belgium. The crew Flugmeister Kaspar and Flugmeister Rund were on a reconnaissance flight when fire broke out in one of the engines. They made an emergency landing on the North Sea and were able to extinguish the fire. As communication was by pigeon they managed to send a message to their Base (Zeebrugge). The message contained that they were down on the sea and tried to return with one motor over the sea to base.
Unfortunately the pigeon took 2 hours to reach Zeebrugge, as in the meantime the French destroyer Intrépide appeared seizing the two man crew. But before they were captured the crew managed to set their Gotha WD 7 on fire making it useless for the French. The two were taken ashore to France and interned while the remains of the machine were brought back to land.
Tags: 119 1916 Dunkerque Dunkirk Floatplane Germany Gotha WD.7 on fire twin-engines
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