GUSTAV HAMEL 1889-1914

Gustav Hamel Photo Courtesy of Helena Aldis

 

	Biography 1884-1914	King George V Coronation Air Mail Flights 1911	Final Flights 1912-1914

 

	Warwickshire Yeomanry Museum 1911

 

ONLINE RESOURCES      If you search for "Gustav Hamel", using the Google search engine, (8-15-05), you will find 451 links!. A good place to start is the following.

 

Gustav Hamel From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.      This summary of his life and career is typical of the entries which are found in the Wikipedia free encyclopedia. It offers a very comprehensive revue which contains many links to sites which may be followed for more detailed information. It also includes an extensive bibliography which you may find is useful. You can access the page by clicking on the title above.

 

You can see another very nice picture of him on the Family History and Post card Collecting website of David Barnes.

 

Gustav Hamel disappeared over the channel on 23rd May 1914 while returning from Paris in a new 80hp Morane-Saulnier monoplane he had just collected.   Editor's Note: If you have any information on this Early Bird, please contact me. E-mail to Ralph Cooper   Back