French national football team - first flight March 1919

[natttuppen]

Perhaps the Farman F 60 Goliath was used?

[Leendert]

Thanks for the suggestion.
Meanwhile I've (also) found a reference in Flight Magazine of March 6, 1919, saying the team would fly in a "4-engined Voisin machine" while 4 other aircraft were to take the officials.

Am too unfamiliar with Voisin aircraft to tell if they had a 4-engined type in early 1919.

Regards,

Leendert

[Stig Jarlevik]

The statement regarding four-engined aircraft feels very odd.

France had up to the end of WW 1 only had a few experimental aircraft built that used four engines, none very suitable for transporting people...

However the Farman FF.60 feels like a good bet. The prototype flew in early October 1918 and already on Feb 12th 1919 aircraft No 2 had inaugurated the Paris-Brussels stretch. It could carry 24 pax.

I don't know how many Goliath that had been produced by the time, but I don't believe many, so other aircraft must have been used to shuttle journalists and so on.

Cheers
Stig