Knights of the Air - Austria-Hungary's Royal and Imperial flying school (1911)

In 1911, the first graduating class of Austria-Hungary's Royal and Imperial flying school at Wiener Neustadt stands before a Taube monoplane designed by Austrian Igo Etrich. The plane was one of Austria-Hungary's fleet of five military aircraft.

Tags: 1910s, Knights of the Air, aircraft, austria-hungary, aviation

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Comment by Cap'n Tony on July 23, 2010 at 12:09pm: Those are so beautiful. Thanks for finding the images!

Comment by lord_k on July 23, 2010 at 7:06am: To Pilsner Panther:
quite right you are, fellow. Besides, Taube was already obsolete in 1914. Anyway, it's gorgeous!

Comment by lord_k on July 23, 2010 at 7:03am: To Cap'n Tony:
here's the only surviving original Etrich Taube photographed at the Technical Miseum, Vienna.
Other preserved Taube airplanes are license-built by Rumpler and other manufacturers.

Comment by humberto huerta ray on July 22, 2010 at 10:58pm: found a couple of images of a Rumpler Taube here:
http://www.museumofflight.org/aircraft/rumpler-taube-dove-reproduction

Although they look hopeful of the future, it saddens me that most probably more than half of them died before the first half of WW1 had passed..

Comment by Tome Wilson on July 22, 2010 at 10:52pm: @Cap'n - I'll stay on the look out. Can't be giving up the good stuff so soon, can I?

Comment by Cap'n Tony on July 22, 2010 at 8:54pm: Got any images of the Taube? Reminds me of a Fokker Eindekker from what I can see in the pic.

Comment by IRON CROSS on July 22, 2010 at 6:52pm: they really where the knights of the air how many of them survived the fistworld war to see the austro-hungarian empire colapse

Comment by Pilsner Panther on July 22, 2010 at 5:26pm: Ah, but gorgeous aircraft couldn't save the poor old Empire. "Hang on to those uniforms, boys, after the war we'll all be doormen and lavatory attendants!"