Who's Who ?

This documentary focuses on first female pilot and the aeronautical context of the early 20th century. Beyond the aircraft, many figures are mentioned or shown but not always named. Here they are:

Hélène Dutrieux (1877-1961) maybe at the controls of a Farman III

Marie Marvingt (20 February 1875 – 14 December 1963)

1901 : brevet de pilote de ballon libre (no 145);
8 Nov 1910 : pilot license n° 281;
1959 : helicopter license.

Lilly Steinschneider (13 January 1891 – 28 March 1975)

Roland Garros (6 October 1888 – 5 October 1918)

Adolphe Pégoud (13 June 1889 – 31 August 1915)

Amelie Hedwig Boutard-Beese aka Melie Beese (13 September 1886 – 22 December 1925)

(Karl Wilhelm) Otto Lilienthal (23 May 1848 – 10 August 1896)

Wright Family

(left to right) Orville (August 19, 1871 – January 30, 1948), Wilbur (April 16, 1867 – May 30, 1912) & Katharine Wright (August 19, 1874 – March 3, 1929). Of the seven children, these three are involved in aviation.

Joseph P. Richter and Božena Laglerová (11 December 1888 – 8 October 1941)

Czech pioneer aviator, the first female pilot in Austria-Hungary.

Werner Alfred Pietschker (14 January 1887 in Bornstedt; 15 November 1911 in Johannisthal)

So Melie Beese worked with him but on her flying boat project (or only on the very first steps, not the drawing seen on the screen).

Eugène Lefebvre (4 October 1878 - 7 September 1909)

Eugène Lefebvre fatally accidented in Port Aviation, near Juvisy-sur-Orge (18 km South of Paris, France). He's the first pilot-in-command to be killed in a powered airplane crash (the first death -as a passenger- was Lieutenant Selfridge in 1908; read the main page).