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ALFRED HERRMANN (1895 - 1980) |
Alfred Herrmann was born in Brussels in 1895. With the end of the First World War he undertakes studies of engineer at the university of Brussels where he specializes in the aeronautical construction industry. As soon as graduate, he integrated in France first the factories of manufacture of Farman planes then a whole new factory of aeronautical construction, the "Ateliers des Mureaux" of the Pélabon brothers and he will pass his pilot's license there.. Of
return in Belgium in 1924, Alfred Herrmann reaches a post of technical
director within the company
ACAZ,
company which had like main goal the construction of entirely metal planes. He
then directs the construction of ACAZ T1 and T2, planes drawn by famous
engineer Alfred Renard who became one of his close relations. Then he draws in
its turn the plans of a new fighter intended for the Belgian Air Force,
C2.
Rene Bulté will assist him in his functions at the time of the construction of
the aircraft.
In 1974 he writes an article entitled "A
propos de la mort de Charles Lindbergh" |