“What a funny thing! » “And it can really fly? » "You have to be crazy to get on board..." These are perhaps some reactions from Caen residents in the summer of 1910, when the "Great Aviation Week of Caen" opened. On the spot, hangars were installed to accommodate biplanes and monoplanes, these planes equipped with two superimposed supporting wings. Among the pilots, some famous names at the time: Captain Félix Camerman, Marcel Paillette, who had obtained aviator pilot's license No. 99 barely a month earlier, Robert Martinet, or even Marcel Hanriot, the youngest of these flying crazy people.
Subsequently, many other meetings were held on the Cormelles airfield until 1939, when the Caen and Calvados flying club, created in 1931, moved to Carpiquet.
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