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Re: Photo AEG B.I
Hi Clint
Most likely taken at the same place, ie Nieder-Neuendorf. One can faintly discern the AEG number on the fuselage side. Pupil looks somehow "civil dressed"...
The point I was trying to make is that the markings I refer to on the two reference photos are that they were not connected to the militaries, but that AEG was contracted to educate a number of pilots on behalf of the Luftstreitkräfte. Thus these aircraft carried their own markings all the way perhaps even into 1917.
Without knowing any dates I know that this is pure speculation on my part,
but I think it is an interesting situation. When the war broke out in Europe all major manufacturers had their own schools, probably operating on a much larger scale than the militaries themselves. The first thing they must have asked themselves was how to put them best into use?
It would be highly interesting to find out what really happened on the training side with the major combatants during should we say 1912 - 18.
I don't think any books (at least I don't have any) have been written specifically about the training of pilots during the Great War.
Cheers
Stig
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