HENRI MOLLA

 

"New Aviation Record" Daily Journal and Tribune, Knoxville, Tennessee: January 4, 1913, Transcribed by Bob Davis - 7-12-04 Mulhausen, Germany, Jan. 3      Arthur Faller, the aviator, today exceeded by five seconds the world's record for a duration flight in a biplane carrying five passengers. His time was one hour, six minutes and five seconds. The previous holder of the record was Henri Molla." Note from Bob Davis: Quite possibly this record category was short lived. There would be quite a few people in the record books if every time another passenger was carried, there was born a new category. Your website page for Rene Allard indicates that Molla flew a REP in the 1912 Circuit of Anjou.

 

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.

No. 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36

Pilot Gaubert Labouret Tabuteau Espanet Bedel Garros Hamel Brindejonc Bobba Renaux Bielovucic Allard Legagneux Hanouille Mouthiere Obre Audemars J Védrines Hélen Molla Wynmalen Wagner Frey Ehrmann Labouchére Renaux Laugarot Fischer Mesguich Vidart Verstraeten Pierre Béard Bielovucic Divétain Grazzioli

Apparatus Astra Astra Morane-Salunier Nieuport Morane-Saulnier Blériot Blériot Morane-Saulnier Morane-Saulnier Farman Voisin Caudron Zens Blériot Morane-Saulnier Monoplan Blériot Deperdussin Nieuport REP Breguet Hanriot Hanriot Deperdussin Zodiac M Farman M Farman H Farman Morane-Saulnier Deperdussin Sommer Blériot De Marcay Ladougne Blériot

Motor Renault 90 ch Renault 70 ch Gnome 80 ch Gnome 80 ch Gnome 80 ch Gnome 50 ch Gnome 80 ch Gnome 80 ch Gnome 80 ch Gnome 70 ch Antoinette 60 ch Anzani 100 ch Antoinette 50 ch Anzani 60 ch Gnome 80 ch GNome 70 ch Gnome 80 ch Gnome 100 ch Gnome 80 ch REP 75 ch Canton-U 80 ch Gnome 70 ch Gnome 70 ch Gnome 100 ch Clerget 100 ch Renault 90 ch Renault 70 ch Gnome 80 ch Gnome 80 ch Gnome 100 ch Anzani 60 ch Anzani 60 ch Anzani 100 ch Gnome 80 ch Anzani 60 ch

 
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CARLO DEL PRETE E GLI AVIATORI LUCCHESI   Giorgio Giorgi   Product Details Cloth: List Price: ISBN:

 

Raid Parigi - Roma - Torino Extract from CARLO DEL PRETE E GLI AVIATORI LUCCHESI Courtesy of Giovanni Giorgetti, 11-16-05      You can sample a portion of the book which displays a poster which features all 26 of the pioneer aviators, including Henri Molla, who participated in the 1911 flight from Paris to Rome to Torino. Click on the title above to see the next page.

.I have no information as to the dates of his birth or 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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