GEORGE CHEMET 1891- AKA Géo Chemet

PARIS-DEAUVILLE - CONCOURS D'AVIONS MARINS DEAUVILLE - Arrivée de CHEMET sur Borel Collection of Sandi, 2-8-06

 

REMARKABLE FLIGHT IN AEROPLANE Daily Journal and Tribune, Knoxville, Tennessee: December 22, 1912, Transcribed by Bob Davis - 1-1-04 "Venice, Italy, Dec. 21. - A remarkable flight in a hydro-aeroplane across the Adriatic sea from Venice to Trieste and back again to Venice, was carried out today by the French aviator George Chemet. He took with him as a passenger Major Ginnocchio of the Italian army.      The total distance of the flight was about 159 miles. On the return voyage from the Austrian to the Italian coast, trouble with the motor of the hydro-aeroplane obliged Chemet to descend to the surface of the sea, when twenty-five miles away from shore.      The daring aviator succeeded in repairing his motor, while floating on a slightly rough sea. Then he re-ascended and terminated the trip to Venice at a speed of seventy-five miles an hour." Bob Davis

 

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES via email from Dave Lam, 1-2-03      Chemet was born 12 june 1891, and received French license number 159, ( 9 August 1910), which he earned on a Voisin. Don't know anything else about him.

 

ONLINE RESOURCES      If you search for "Chemet +aviation", using the Google search engine, (1-2-04), you will find about 48 links, three of which refer to George Chemet. Two of them are in French, one is in English, and you will only find the briefest of mention of his career in them. The one in English is seen immediately below.

 

THE NEXT 100 YEARS: ACCESS TO THE UNIVERSE?      This page on the International Symposium and Exposition In Celebration of 100 Years of Powered Flight, presented 14-17 July, 2003 by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and the International Council of Aeronautical Sciences, offers a very brief mention of George Chemet's flight in the Borel in 1912. You can access the site by clicking on the title above.

 

I have no information as to the date of his death.

 

Editor's Note: If you have any more information on this pioneer aviator please contact me. E-mail to Ralph Cooper

 

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