Aviette Baleck, 1920

[Maveric]

Hi all,


I search for more information about a french glider named "Baleck". Who know´s more?


Servus, Maveric

 

[SlickDriver]

The best I have found is Aviette Baleck 1920.

http://www.flugzeugbilder.de/search4.cgi?srch=Aviette Baleck&stype=actype&srng=2

 

[Jemiba]

It was an attempt for a human powered aircraft and as it seems, not too much
information has survived, as IIRC descriptions in the TMB ("Technikmuseum Berlin", Technical
museum Berlin) about this exhibit were qute sparse.
BTW, a little bit strange, searching for brings several hits for "Balek", but only very few for
"Baleck", although it's written clearly directly on it.... ???

 

[hesham]

From TU 193,

The Peugeot prize for muscular-powered ultra-light airplane which was
held on June 25, 1920 in Paris saw the tests of a duck-type machine imagined
by a certain Baleck and piloted by a named January. The editor does
not know more.

 

[Apophenia]

Interesting. The Trait d'Union index has the date as 1919.

Le Trait d'Union, Branche Fraçaise d'Air-Britain. Index Numéros 1 à 266
BALECK
Prix Peugeot 1919 190/25s (MP), 193/56 (C)

BTW, Le prix Peugeot was also known as the Prix du Décamètre (the 10 Meter Prize). That human-powered 10 m course was to be flown twice - once in either direction to obviate the effects of prevailing breezes.
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[ermeio]

any data about the Aviette? someone can measure it in Berlin?

 

[Jemiba]

It hangs from the ceiling there (see Aviette ), so taking direct measurements is difficult, not to mention the "DON'T TOUCH THE EXHIBITS" directive.
But I would simply make a direct information request at info@technikmuseum.berlin, worked well for me in the past, especially if you'll shortly tell them the reasons.

 

[Stargazer]

Typically the kind of topic where the title, not only doesn't give any hint as to what's inside, but ought to have been changed a long time ago!

 

[fortrena]

If I may, it looks as if the captions of the two black and white photos contained in the April 22nd, 2025 message were inadvertently reversed by the staff of the French magazine La Vie aérienne.

The flying machine identified as the aviette Baleck appears to be the voilier of Dr. J. Cousin, and vice versa, a hypotheses seemingly confirmed by the following image, lifted from the same issue of La Vie aérienne, which shows the pilot of the aviette Baleck, January.

Oddly enough, in the May 4th, 1922 issue of the French magazine Sciences et Voyages, Baleck and January are referred to as Bolbeck and Janvier.

 

[Stargazer]

The flying machine identified as the aviette Baleck appears to be the voilier of Dr. J. Cousin, and vice versa, a hypotheses seemingly confirmed by the following image, lifted from the same issue of La Vie aérienne, which shows the pilot of the aviette Baleck, January.

Good catch, thanks!

Oddly enough, in the May 4th, 1922 issue of the French magazine Sciences et Voyages, Baleck and January are referred to as Bolbeck and Janvier.

Goes to show that typos and/or journalistic incompetence are not as new as we sometimes think they are!

 

[ermeio]

There are a couple of pictures for sale online:

"Aviette", human-powered airplane, on June 25, 1920.

"Aviette", human-powered airplane, on June 25, 1920. Photograph from the collections of the French newspaper "Excelsior".

www.galerie-roger-viollet.fr

"Aviette", human-powered airplane, on June 25, 1920.

"Aviette", human-powered airplane, on June 25, 1920. Photograph from the collections of the French newspaper "Excelsior".

www.galerie-roger-viollet.fr