AVIATION - Lot 4

AVIATION Important set of photographs, most of them press photographs. Clément Ader, Jean Assollant with R. Lefèvre and Lotti, Italo Balbo, Maryse Bastié, Maurice Bellonte with D. Costes and P. Codos, Jean Berlioz, Louis Blériot, Lucien Boussoutrot, Léon Challe and his mechanic Rapin, Louis Chevalier, Dieudonné Costes (numerous: with Le Brix, Vitrolles, mechanic Véron etc.), Gustave Daladier, Marcel Doret, Jacques-Louis Dumesnil and Jean Houdemann.), Gustave Daladier, Marcel Doret, Jacques-Louis Dumesnil and Jean Houdemont at Le Bourget, Henri Farman, Ferdinand Ferber on a biplane (1908), Fonck and Udet, Gast and Cramer, Louis Gaudart, Yukichi Goto, Henri Guillaumet and Michel Détroyat, G. Guynemer, F. de Labouchère and Commandant Dorand in front of a Dorand biplane, R. Labouret, Hubert Latham, E. Lelièvre, Jacques de Lesseps, J. Levasseur in a seaplane, Lindbergh received by Foch, Désiré Lucca, Fritz Morzik champion of the International Touring Aircraft Challenge, Umberto Nobile received by Mussolini, Maurice Noguès, Robin, F. Parizot, Louis Paulhan on a Farman biplane, Émile Paumier, Henri Rougier, Sadi-Lecointe and A. Herbemont, Santos-Dumont, C.W.A. Scott, Igor Sikorsky, Ernst Udet at the Vieilles Tiges and Aéro-Club, Jules Védrines, René de Vitrolles, Gabriel Voisin, Wilbur Wright... Plus Guillain, the mechanic who was killed with Védrines, a parade in memory of Guynemer, and groups of aviators in front of aircraft from the First World War, or received at the Élysée (Robida, Salel, Lefèvre, Mmes Goulette and Bastié), at Gala Mermoz (Doret, Codos, Détroyat etc.), in front of a hangar of the French Air Force.), in front of a Société Antoinette hangar (Chatain, Van Gaver, Laffont etc.), or studying their maps before a raid on England (1939), crew of the first Rome-Rio de Janeiro mail plane, mechanics at work... Aircraft images: Clément Ader's first airplane, the "Dauphin" aviator, the "Poulain" aviator, a Frères Voisin airplane, Jean Moisant's Blériot monoplane, Grandin's "La Mouette" flown by Cailleux, the Farman biplane, the "Santos-Dumont" seaplane, an R. Desmon, the Farman by Boussoutrot and Pillon, the "Nungesser et Coli" by Costes and Le Brix, the Bréguet by Costes and Codos for the Paris-Saïgon raid, the "Joseph Le Brix" by Codos and Rossi with their records on the fuselage, amphibious aircraft, German seaplane DO X (and the Prince of Wales received on the wing of a DO X), crossing the Alps in a "Balbo" seaplane, Vultee YB 11, Europa tail detached on landing at Bremen, Boeing four-engine bomber, etc. Aerial surveillance photos from the First World War. Meetings and trials. Aerial view of the Junkers plant in Dessau, zeppelin nacelle, Japanese (1933), German and American D.C.A. aerial maneuvers... Etc.