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Title: St. Germain, May 21 |
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Description: St. Germain, May 21, Grand International Air Gala. Organized by "Air Propaganda" and the journal "Le Petit Parisien." On May 21, 1933, One hundred thousand spectators gathered at the St. Germain Aerodrome in Paris for the "Grand International Air Gala." It was a day filled with many exciting flights by the famous european flyers and stuntmen. The program included an acrobat performing tricks on a flying trapeze, a woman parachute jumper, graceful acrobatic maneuvers by a towed glider, and aerobatic stunt flying performances by Miss Liesel Bach, Maurice Finat, Michel Detroyat, Gerhard Fieseler, and others. Fieseler was the highlight of the aerobatic flights; the German master stunt flyer delighted the crowd with an assortment of maneuvers including upside down flips, vertical zooms, ‘leaf drops’, and ‘loop the loops’ done while flying upside down as well as right side up. |
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