Talk:Grandeur et servitude de l'aviation postale
Who's Who ?
All along the documentary, several face and name are shown. Some words about each of them awaiting a future wiki link for the first five :
Marcel Reine : born on 1st of December 1901; shoot down in the Mediterranean Sea on 27 November 1940 most probably by Italian fighters (civil flight approved by the German/Italian Armistice Commission for the Farman NC.2234 airliner Le Verrier with Henri Guillaumet, another Aéropostale pioneer, at the controls and Marcel Reine as copilot, flew to Syria to bring Jean Chiappe, newly appointed French High Commissioner to the Levant, to Syria).
Henri Guillaumet (29 mai 1902 - 27 November 1940), famous by crashing on Friday 13 June 1930, while crossing the Andes for the 92nd time. He walked for a week over three mountain passes. To his friend Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, who had come to find him, he said "What I have done, I swear to you, no animal would have done".
Jean Mermoz (9 December 1901 – 7 December 1936). Disappeared in the South Atlantic flying the Latécoère 300 Croix du Sud.
Alexandre Collenot (7 September 1902 - disappeared in the South Atlantic on 10 February 1936). An aviation mechanic, he was Jean Mermoz's team-mate on a number of flights, including the famous one on 9 March 1929 (crash at 4200m, 3 days to repair at -20°C and an epic take-off to land at base where everyone thought they were dead). Crew member of the ill-fated F-AOIK Latécoère 301 Ville de Buenos Aires lost on its fourth South Atlantic flight, ten months before the death of his famous colleague (Mermoz).
Léopold Gimié dit Léo Gimié (22 March 1903 - 13 January 1943) civil aviation radio-navigator, crew member of Jean Mermoz on 12 and 13 May 1930, during the first postal crossing of the South Atlantic aboard the Latécoère 28.3 Comte-de-La-Vaux.
Capitaine de vaisseau (Ship-of-the-line captain) Roger Bonnot (1894 - 1973) is known for his commitment to the development of commercial air transport. Before 1929, he was first active in the field of aerostation and as an airship pilot, Roger Bonnot holds the record for the most hours flown on aerostats (1,339 hours during 309 airship flights).
Lucien Bossoutrot (16 May 1890 - 1 September 1958). A test pilot for Farman during the war, on 25 November 1934 he made his first commercial flight over the South Atlantic, from Dakar to Natal (Brazil), aboard the Blériot 5190 ‘Santos-Dumont’ seaplane. Elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1936.
Léon Givon (1985? - ) : From 4 February to 1 April 1935, he flew the Blériot 5190, making a weekly crossing of 3,500 km.
