Talk:Raymonde de Laroche

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I've still yet to finish translating the following from the german page:

For frightening the spectators and the flight instructor it decreased to approach and main header. It flew some hundred meters to five meters height.

By Charles Voisin as the female pilot trained, existed Raymonde de Laroche on 8 March 1910 as a first woman of the world the pilot examination of the Aéro club de France. Still in the same year it participated as an only woman in the flight week of Heliopolis and nevertheless reached the 6. Place. With the Flugmeetin in St. Petersburg became it fourth. During the large flight weeks of the Champagne in Reims it had an accident heavily, when it air-eddy-dragged in another airplane turned out.

Despite heaviest head injuries, to an arm break up and two broken legs did not want it flies to give. Already two years later it participated again in matches.

In the year 1912 it was again very heavily hurt in the car accident, in which one of the brothers Voisin died. Nevertheless it won 1913 the woman cup of the Aéro club de France as well as the Coupe Femina.

After it had become quiet during the First World War around it, it improved 1918 the woman world record in the dauerflug (323 kilometers) and 1919 with 4'800 meters the world record in altitude for women, set up by Ruth Law.

In the summer of the same yearly it announced itself as Copilotin for the test flight of a new machine in Le Crotoy in the proximity of Paris. The flight went inclined, the airplane fell and to Raymonde de Laroche as well as the pilot of the machine with the Crash was killed.

I used google to translate it from the german wikipedia, so I'm trying to make sense out of it. I'll probably finish it soon, but anyone esle should feel free to work on it. Here's the google translation: http://216.239.39.104/translate_c?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymonde_de_Laroche&prev=/search%3Fq%3DRaymonde%2Bde%2BLaRoche%2Bsite:wikipedia.org%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26c2coff%3D1 — マイケル ₪ 21:23, Aug 19, 2004 (UTC)

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I've expanded the article as best I can but it still needs work. Random Passer-by 16:02, 7 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Can anyone document the statement in the article which says she was an accomplished balloonist prior to undertaking fixed wing training? I can find no such reference. Thanks. Medevac6 (talk) 15:00, 13 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]