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Elie Hanouille
 
 
Elie hanouille
Collection of Ian Sayer, 10-13-06
 

 
 
ONLINE RESOURCES
     If you search for "Elie Hanouille"using Google, (10-12-07), you will find about 17 links. The following one is a real find, not only that it tells the story of Hanouille's death, but that it includes a revue of the development of aviation in the area. You will probably recognize the names of many of the familiar pioneers.
 

 
 
Geografía de Guipúzcoa
Serapio Mugica Zufiria (1854-1941)
      This website includes the story of Hanouille's death in its revue of aviation in the region. The story is extensive and fascinating and well worth reading in its entirety. In order to avoid losing this very important article, should it disappear from the net, I have copied the relevant portion which discusses the history of aviation in the area. If you click on the title above and fail to reach the site, you can access the copies, in both the original Spanish and in a machine-translated English version by clicking on the appropriate following link.

Spanish Version English Version

      You will find the reference to Hanouille in the next to the last paragraph on the page.
 

 
 
Georges Legagneux, l'homme oiseau
     Hannouille is mentioned as a participant in the race, the Circuit of Anjou of 1912. The website offers a very interesting and comprehensive story of Georges Legagneux, one of the most famous of all French aviators of the time. Unfortunately for those of us who only read English, the text is entirely in French. However, for my own benefit, and that of my English-speaking visitors, I have tried to translate some portions of the article which mention René Allard. You can access the original article by clicking on the title above.
 
 
THE ANJOU CIRCUIT - 1912
     In 1912, Legagneux tries a return in the French air meetings. The first great competition inhehich it participates is the circuit of Anjou race, organized by the Rene brothers and Pierre Gasnier of Frène and by the Aero club of France, in June 1912. The circuit of Anjou is a triangle , Angers - Saumur - Cholet, of 156 km, to be covered between 9 in the morning and 19 hours in the evening, three times on Sunday June 16 and four times the following day, for a total of 1,100 kilometers. The premiums are high: the winner gains 50 000 francs (price of the Aero club), plus 20 000 francs for the race speed.
Competitors in the Circuit of Anjou, 1912,
Competing for the Grand Prize of the Aero club of France.
(Source: The Air Review).
     Roland Garros, piloting his Blériot, has only one 1911 monoplane with a Gnome 50 ch engine. His machine is n° 6 in this race. The Britisher Gustav Hamel, in a Blériot n° 7, already has the new Gnome 80.
 
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       René Allard flew his 1912 Caudron biplane propelled by the new Anzani 100 star engine and carries the number 12. George Legagneux teams with Robert Martinet in the monoplane 1910 Paul Zens monoplane with the antique Antoinette 50 engine, carrying the number 14 and with which he is not likely to finish the test. Let us note the absence of number 13. Biélovucic gave up his heavy Voisin biplane and piloted the very new Marcay monoplane with an Anzani engine of 100 CH.
     In consequence of the bad weather, the race was a catastrophe. Allard destroyed his biplane on the takeoff, as did Biélovucic. Bedel made a "wooden horse" on takeoff; Hélen and the Legagneux-Martinet crew gave up on the first turn. Only four aeroplanes left on June 16, Garros' Blériot, Hélen's Nieuport, the Morane-Saulnier and Legagneux. Only four pilots managed to make the first turn because of the wind and the rain: Garros, Hamel, Espanet and Brindejonc of Moulinais. But the race became even less interesting; Espanet broke down in Cholet (the Maineet-Loire) in the second turn. After the second turn, there remained only two competitors: Garros (Blériot) and Brindejonc des Moulinais, (Morane-Saulnier), who arrived in time. Garros was the only one to make the third turn.
 

 
 
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