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Collection of Jean-Pierre Lauwers |
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September 21, 1910 Collection of Jean-Pierre Lauwers |
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from Jean-Pierre Lauwers 11/30/02 At the Bruges postcard fair recently, I finally bought a René Cozic postcard, Belgian license n° 23. I had known it to be available for several months, but first had to check my pilots list to be sure he was a Belgian. The postcard was made by a photographer from Deinze (Belgium) and annotated in old handwriting René Cozic/ 21 September 1910! But apart of this real old photo postcard, I haven't found any biography for him! Again, a very rare postcard to find! All I know is that he is noted to have died in the Jules de Laminne list (released 1938!) and he must have suffered a natural death, that is, he was not killed in a crash nor was he a victim of service in WWI. In the picture above, René is seen sitting in his Voisin Racer. It is missing the bowtop hight rudders! I guess this was to minimize lift, so it wouldn't fly. It was surely a flight-school plane which was used for ground rolling as a part of flight education..When the hight rudders were replaced, the plane could fly. Admittedly a minor detail, but September 1910 was about a month and a half before he got his license! |
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Personal Communication from Yves Duwelz(BAHA) Per Jean-Pierre Lauwers, 12-8-02 Editor's Note: If you have any information on this pioneer aviator please contact me. E-mail to Ralph Cooper |
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