Talk:George de Bothezat

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A fact from George de Bothezat appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 17 May 2010 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Thomas Edison hailed George de Bothezat's rotorcraft, the "Flying Octopus", as "the first successful helicopter"?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2010/May.

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Gheorghe Botezatu was a Romanian according to his wikipedia page in Russian

"He came from an old Moldavian (Moldavia is a province of Romania) noble family. He studied at the Iasi University "Alexandru Ion Cuza" (Romania), then at the mechanical department of Kharkiv (Ukraine) Institute of Technology, Electrotechnical Institute Montefo in Belgium (1905-1907), where he received the title of "electrical engineer". In 1908 he received a diploma with honors at HTI (Ukraine). In 1908-1909 he studied in Göttingen and Berlin. In 1911, at the Sorbonne (France) he received the first aviation doctoral thesis "Studies on the stability of the airplane» («Étude de la stabilité de l'aéroplane»). From 1911 he taught at the St. Petersburg Polytechnic Institute . ...

In 1918 he returned to Iasi (Romania), where he began work at the helicopter, and then got a contract, and emigrated in United States." (automatic translationa from Russian, see http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%B7%D0%B0%D1%82,_%D0%93%D0%B5%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.83.160.23 (talk) 13:35, 18 March 2013 (UTC) [reply]

According to his biography (B.P. Mukheev and Igor Sikorsky), his family was Moldavian with Turkish origins, but Bothezat was born in St. Petersburg. After his father died, they could no longer afford to live there and moved to Bessarabia. It says before Kharkov, he attended the technical high school of provice of Kishinev. Is that the same place as "Alexandru Ion Cuza"? This of course was during the time that the region was part of Russia. DonPMitchell (talk) 20:08, 5 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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According to this source (his obituary ), George de Bothezat was born in Bessarabia, not Saint Petersrsburg. Just to clarify - Saint Petersrsburg is not in Bessarabia. Bessarabia is currently Republic Of Moldova .

http://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%2018/New%20York%20NY%20Sun/New%20York%20NY%20Sun%201940/New%20York%20NY%20Sun%201940%20-%201135.pdf

For history sake I think both sources have to be mentioned. S11855 (talk) 02:38, 29 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: please establish a consensus for this alteration before using the {{edit semi-protected}} template. — Newslinger talk 01:44, 4 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Fake

This page has a lot of fake information. He was born in Iași, Romania first then Kisinev isactuay Chișinău and was not part of Russia at the time. 109.76.94.240 (talk) 22:26, 5 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]