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🇪🇺An amazing original 1909 colour photograph of hot air balloons at the inaugural Paris Air Show. It was taken by Léon Gimpel, using the 'Autochrome Lumière' process, the first commercial process for colour photography.
skategoat 🐐 🇵🇸@Natasha_Jay I need someone to identify the planes at the bottom!!!!
Inky says "What the hell?!"@felipe @Natasha_Jay At the absolute bottom is the Blériot XI. Almost certainly the plane that Blériot flew across the English Channel.
Then left and above that is an Etrich Taube which may or may not have flown at this time but went into production the next year.
Above that is the Santos-Dumont 14-bis, very distinctive, which some ouside of the US see as the first flight.
The rest are not distictive enough for me to ID. Though there may be list for this aivation event, somewhere.
@InkySchwartz
I don't have a list but here are some photos from a few shows...
https://www.flickr.com/photos/varese2002/albums/72157691276267544/
Exposition Internationale de locomotion aérienne
This album covers the years before the Great War of what is commonly identified as the Paris salon.
@Natasha_Jay @felipe And from 1909 we have this: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Salon_de_locomotion_a%C3%A9rienne_Grand_Palais_Paris_1909_(51973798910).jpg
Which seems to confirm that the Blériot XI is after that famous flight l.
We also have this for anyone with a Sci Am account: https://www.scientificamerican.com/issue/supplements/1909/01-23/
@Natasha_Jay @felipe And I just found a digitized copy of that SA here: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015010798885&seq=61
Which makes me think the lower right plane is the nose of an Antoinette VII. Maybe not?
@InkySchwartz @Natasha_Jay if the 14-bis is on the left, maybe the Demoiselle is on the right in front of it
@felipe @Natasha_Jay I think you are correct. There was a Demoiselle .20 was exhibited at this show in a Dumont pavilion.
Adam_Y@Natasha_Jay I love the ghosts of the audience, rendered like whips as they move through the long and multiple exposures.
🏳️🌈 Sophie 🖋 Cozy Mystery!@adam_y @Natasha_Jay Came here to say the same thing!
Toni Aittoniemi@Natasha_Jay Sorry to be pedantic, but I highly suspect two of these are not a hot air balloons at all. 🤔
Stumpy The Mutt@gimulnautti @Natasha_Jay Very likely hydrogen!🙀
Stoneface Vimes@Natasha_Jay why is there a sailing boat in the back right of the pic😉
KielKontrovers Blog@Natasha_Jay and with that color picture it might be easier to colorize other images of the same show or balloons....
randomized@Natasha_Jay
Felt like I fell in a Jules Verne's book
Felt like I fell in a Jules Verne's book
ModernMaslow@Natasha_Jay I can't help but feel this is blown out of proportion... or am I just... floating efluvium?..
Virginicus@Natasha_Jay #TIL the Paris Air Show used to be actually in Downtown Paris.
Martin Angelo 🏳️🌈@Natasha_Jay not gonna lie, first thing that came to my mind when seeing this picture: Obelix 😅
Michael Katzmann🐈@Natasha_Jay There are some amazing color photographs (circa 1911) from Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii at the Library of Congress.
These were made using three RGB plates sequentially.
@vk2bea
Amazing!
Amazing!
Dee Lux Fiat@Natasha_Jay So full of wonder & possibilty!
@DeeLux_Fiat
Very much this. No just another era but so evocative of adventure!
Very much this. No just another era but so evocative of adventure!
Sterling@Natasha_Jay
Nice !
Nice !
Robert Thau@Natasha_Jay The exhibition space here, FWIW, is almost certainly the **Grand Palais des Champs-Élysées, originally constructed for the 1900 world's fair.**
Moritz@Natasha_Jay Just imagine walking through these halls back at the time!