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Tankcommander


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Hello,

Link below shows a film (6'31") about a French motorized Kite unit during WW1 (arriving, assembling kite, get it into air, fixing the camera and looking at the photo's taken):

 http://www.lausitz-bild.de/sonderthemen/kap.html 

Here a short history about the use of kites by the German army in Flanders (German written):

http://www.drachenarchiv.de/Seiten/k_krieg_abwehr.html

History about the Cody warkite - manlifter (and links how to make one yourself) Txt in German:

http://lexikon.freenet.de/Cody_Warkite

Free book (10 Pages) about Roloplan (Steiff) "Flugabwehrdrachen" in WW1

http://www.hs-buch.de/drachenpionierebuch.html

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Very interesting, I appreciate you sharing this information. I would like to find a clear side profile of the French vehicles in the film. All the Best Tim R.

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Tim R

Don't know if it is the same vehicle, found it here:

http://www.museeairespace.fr/votre-visite/halls-dexposition/les-as-de-14-18.html 

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Hi again,

Almost sure it is the vehicle, found here: http://alain.vassel.pagesperso-orange.fr/biographie-ader.htm 

They say it is a Camion-Treuil Type Saconney (1915)

Second is a "Train de cerf volants"

DJ

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Found on Google:

http://xvm-188-60.ghst.net/carnet_de_guerre.html

History of Kites and some info about the balloons during ww1, also a complete unit of "Kite troops"

 

histoire11.jpg

histoire10.jpg

guerre07.jpg

guerre08.jpg

Last Two photo's: From left to right:

Cert-Volants (Troops to assemble and work with the kites), Photographie aérienne (Air Photography Unit), Aérologie

DJ

 



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Tankcommander Thank you very much for the photo's and information, I really appreciate it. All the Best Tim R.

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