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Originally Posted by musec04
Stig,
The only clue to location appears to be the reference to Hagenau on the rear of one of the photos. The nearest school,of which I'm aware, would be FEA 5 at Hannover.This did at least exist from early in the war, so may be a possibility.
Regards,
Clint
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Hello
Hagenau is probably in Alsace (now Haguenau), 25 km N of Strasbourg. The airfield was built lately (1917), and a Flugschule, depending of FEA 9 (Darmstadt) was operational in Hagenau. Local sources indicate that the Flugschule "Arthur Sasse", on behalf of the Deutscher Fliegerbund, was opened in May 1918 and was closed after the bombing of the airfield in September.
If some elements may be of help... In the early years, the initial training was subcontracted to civiiian schools, who where more interested by the income and were not very motivated to put adequate flying abilities at the pupils. A known example is Gerd Fieseler who was soloed after only two or three flights with the instructor. Result : crashed at the next and spent months at the hospital.
More advanced training was done at the Flugpark level or at the FEA.
The only book I know who speaks of the training is "Die deutschen Luftstreitkräfte im ersten Weltkrieg", written by Niklaas Napp, not so easy to read.
Regards
Jean Schreiber