Talk:Norsk Films revy

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Blériot XI-2

This Blériot is probably seen in a museum. What did this plane so special to be there ? It's not the first aircraft which flew in Norway. But it's probably the aircraft (or another one paint to act as) of Tryggve Gran (1888-1980). This Norwegian navy officer was an explorer and an aviator. He was a member of the 1910–13 Scott Antarctic Expedition. Home again in Europe he became interested in aviation. He learnt to fly at Blériot's aviation school in Paris. On 30th July 1914, he became the first pilot to cross the North Sea. He flew in his Blériot XI-2 from Cruden Bay in Scotland to Jæren in Norway. During World War One, he enlisted with the Royal Flying Corp. But during the thirties and World War Two, he adhered to the ideas of facism perhaps following his fighting in 1919 as commander of various Royal Air Force units in Arkhangelsk and North Russia during the Allied intervention in 1919. So that's why the plane of this aviation pioneer fighting against Germany between 1914 and 1918 is shown in a movie made under German censorship. LVCDC 03:44, 14 June 2015 (MDT)