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Bleriot XI from the Power Point Presentation HKACC 207 Squadron First Class Cadet Training Aviation History

 

ONLINE RESOURCES      If you search for "Alwexander Kouzminsky" using the Google search engine, (6-22-11), you will find five links, the first three being to this website. You will learn that he was a nephew of Tolstoy. If you pursue that clue, you will find a wealth of links, some of them very helpful.

 

HKACC 207 Squadron First Class Cadet Training Aviation History      This Power Point Presentation is quite remarkable and well worth viewing in its entirety. I downloaded the file and then was able to view it, page by page, using Microsoft PowerPoint program. Of the 83 pages, each of them very interesting, it is page 52 which is devoted to Kouzminsky.

 

The Straits Times. NO. 24.078 SINGAPORE. SATURDAY. JANUARY 11. 1913. PRICE 10 CENTS.      "The aviator, A. Kouzminsky, will fly at the racecourse. Hangkok. according to present arrangements on three days? January Jii, 21 and '11. He has already performed at various places on the China coast with apparently greater success than some other aeronauts."      This excerpt, which was copied by the OCR method, has not identified the three days which are mentioned. However, it does place him in China in 1913.

 

FLIGHT FOREIGN AVIATION NEWS JANUARY 10- 1914 "Flying in Persia"      "On Sunday an aeroplane was seen in flight for the first time at Teheran, a Russian aviator. Kouzminsky, piloting his Blériot aeroplane over the drill square, the novel spectacle attracting a great crowd of natives."      This excerpt is typical of one of the stories which is repeated in several of the references.

 

RESENTS FILM OF CZAR      This episode is reported in the N Y Times of September 5, 1921. Below is a brief extract of part of the story: "     "This film is contrary to historic truth. Why do you let harm be done to the memory of a man who never ceased to be a faithful ally of France? Why throw mud at a man who refused the peace of Brest-Litovsk and was massacred with his family because of his refusal? This film is a gross profanation of his memory."      The whole audience cheered the young man and the film operator hurriedly cut short the performance. later it was discovered that the young man was M. Alexander Kouzminsky, son of a former President of the Russian Senate, and during the war a pilot with Russian air forces on the French front."      You can read the whole news item by clicking on the title above.

 

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