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Maurice Herbster
Collection of Manny Gorin, 7-25-09 |
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via email from Russ Lake, 4-17-09 I would to congratulate you for the great website you created. I myself am very interested in early aviation and recently brought the project of commemorating the memory of pilot #41, Maurice Herbster, who had lived and died in our town. We commemorated him on last 6th June. He was mechanic and engineer of Henri Farman and helped him for the 1st round Kilometer on January 1908 at Issy les Moulineaux. I am sending you a few photos. Cheers! Manny |
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Place Maurice Herbster Collection of Manny Gorin, 7-25-09 |
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Maurice Herbster Pionnier de l'aéronautique Brevet Aéroplane No 41 Mécanicien pilote instructér de Henry Farman pour le fameux premier vol du Kilomètre boudlé en 1908 MAURICE HERBSTER a résidé plus 20 ans à la Poterie Il y décède en 1951 Collection of Manny Gorin, 7-25-09 |
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EXCERPT from ON THE BACK OF THE DRAGON by JAMES HOPPER. page 747 "It was in France, at Mourmelon, where aviators are hatched and bred, where, of a blue day, as many as ten manbiards will be whizzing and darting and cirlcing and swooping, that I decided flying was a scrumptions thing, and that I wanted to fly. So I made love to the master-pilot of the Farman School, to doughty Maurice Herbster, who looks like President Taft; and he said: 'Yes, I will take you on a little promenade to-morrow.'" |
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Maurice Herbster's Grave Collection of Manny Gorin, 7-25-09 |
Maurice Herbster's Grave - Detail Collection of Manny Gorin, 7-25-09 |
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