Les faucheurs de marguerites

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Les faucheurs de marguerites title screen.

TV Series (1974)
German title : Pioniere der Fliegerei
Italian title : I falciatori di margherite

Starring:
Bruno Pradal (Édouard Dabert)
Christine Wodetzky (Jeanne Dabert)
Philippe Rouleau (Louis Blériot)
Clément Michu (Jules Joly, the camera operator)

Through the life of the fictionous aviation enthusiast Édouard Dabert, the story of aviation from the very beginning until the eve of the World War One.
Nota : most of the aircrafts seen are replicas built for the TV series. Sometimes, the director used aircraft modified to act as the historical aircraft; it's the basic airframe which is here identified (with the suggested model between parenthesis).

Episode 1

Otto Lilienthal Segelflugzeug N°13

Otto Lilienthal Segelflugzeug N°3

This replica is used after the Segelflugzeug N°11 for screenplay purpose but is chronologically false.

Otto Lilienthal Segelflugzeug N°11

Replica built for the Series.

Episode 2

Ader Avion III

Voisin-Dabert (fictional)

Ferber 'Aéroplane' No.6

Ferber 'Aéroplane' No.8

Or maybe the next aircraft, the Ferber IX ?

Voisin Glider

Episode 3

Wright Flyer (replica)

This replica was built for the Series and was used several times with slight changes to act as various aircrafts of the Wright Brothers. At first, it's the 1903 Wright Flyer layout (but once on the air, the pilot is seated, no more lying like on the second screenshot.

Hydravion Voisin Archdeacon (replica)

A seaplane glider tow by a fast canot powered by a 150 hp Panhard engine.
Same aircraft seen in other movies - IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.

Episode 4

The Albatross

Several times, the series refers to Jules Verne's books. In this episode, the son of Julien Dabert is playing with a wood model of the Albatross, the flying ship of Robur the Conqueror. This book is too the basis of the screenplay of Master of the World.

Ferber 'Aéroplane' No.6 (model)

Santos Dumont 14-bis (replica)

In fact, the very first trials of the 14 bis were made hung under the soft airship N° 14. The series just shows further tests with a wire between two pylons.

Seen later for the first successful flight on 23 October 1906. The most known flight of 220 meters occured on 12 November 1906.

Ferber 'Aéroplane' No.8 (or N° 9 ?)

Vuia I

Aircraft of the Romanian inventor and aviation pioneer who designed, built and tested this first aircraft in 1905.

Blériot IV

Voisin Delagrange I

First a model.

Flying Replica.

End of the flight with a very warm welcome from Dabert driving a car (some other examples on the discussion tab).

Episode 5

Santos Dumont 14-bis (replica)

Various Models

Several balloons (only their gondolas are visible on this medium shot) and behind Édouard Dabert we guess the model of the spaceship from From the Earth to the Moon, the famous Jules Verne's book. It's the secret greenhouse where the young Julien Daber builts these models.

Unidentified Zeppelin

Perhaps LZ-5 ?

Replica Made For Movie (no gas).

Archive footage.

Zeppelin LZ 17 Sachsen

To illustrate the Zeppelin LZ 3 subject of the trials of Count von Zeppelin.

Dabert 2

Made for Movie based on the Voisin/Delagrange aircraft. Now in Belgium after deep work to be the replica of belgian pioneer De Caters's Voisin aircraft.

Santos-Dumont No. 19 Demoiselle

Seen again in Le temps des as Episodes 1 and 2.

Antoinette IV (Replica ?)

Episode 6

(coming soon)

Episode 7

Blériot XI

Antoinette IV (Replica ?)

Reputedly the fuselage and engine of a real one with rebuilt wings. As only five Antoinette have been built, this example did not flew. Probably the one seen nowadays at Le Bourget (Paris) Air and Space Museum.

The trial to cross the Channel (La Manche) failed and we look an archive footage of the real wrecked Antoinette IV.

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See also

• Les faucheurs de marguerites on IMDb
• Les faucheurs de marguerites on Wikipedia