MOUCHER

ONLINE RESOURCES      If you search for "Moucher +aviation", using the Google search engine, (8-31-03), you will find just one link, the History of the Ghedi Aerodrome.      I have also searched the net for just "Moucher," which yields some 558 links, but I have not been able to find his first name or any reference to his activites in aviation.

HISTORY OF THE GHEDI AERODROME      Although there is only a brief reference to the activities of Moucher, this article is important to anyone wanting to understand the development of aviation in Italy. The following paragraph was extracted from the article so as to highlight the many pioneer aviators who played a part in its history. It is amply illustrated with seven photographs. I think you will want to read the whole article which details the history from 1909 to 2002.      "The beginning of the flying activity in Ghedi was in 1909 when in the moor on the border with Montichiari was organized an airshow of international importance which saw the participation of airmen such as Wright, Calderara, Cobianchi, Cagno, Rougier, Curtiss, Moucher, Lebland, Anzani and Blériot, who won the "Brescia Grand Prize" flying 50 Km. in 49.24" with a biplane aircraft, while Curtiss won the height race reaching 92 metres. Among the spectators were numbered the Princess Letizia Savoy Bonaparte, Franz Kafka, who acted as foreign correspondent for a newspaper, and Gabriele d'Annunzio, who flew as passenger on Wright's airplane and that would later make of aviation one of his greatest passions (very famous remained his "Flight over Vienna")."      To access the site, just click on the title above.

 

OTHER HISTORIC AIRPORTS via email from Don Fiore - 9-1-03      In addition to Ghedi, other very early but important Italian airfields included Centocelle (Rome) where Wilbur Wright gave his first Italian demonstration), Gioa De Colle, & Aviano (still used today by the United States).

 

I have not been able to find the dates of his birth or his death.   Editor's Note: If you have any information on this pioneer aviator please contact me. E-mail to Ralph Cooper

 

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