Z Černivců až do Japonska. Veřejné vzlety ve východní Haliči a Bukovině v roce 1910
From Chernivtsi to Japan, public take-offs in eastern Galicia and Bukovina in 1910

Summary/Abstract: First public take-off was conducted at Prague on 3 January 1910. Some ofCzechs and/or people living and working in the territory of Czech lands tried tomake air performances in several localities in the Habsburg monarchy, eventuallyas well on the territory of contemporary Ukraine. We can name public take-offs inLviv (24 April 1910) and Chernivtsi (23 October 1910) among others. In connectionwith public flights in 1910 in eastern Galicia and Bukovina, specifically in Lviv andChernivtsi, we can find Czech traces, although only Jan Kašpar was a native Czech.Otto Hieronimus was a German, a native of Cologne, but at that time he was workingas a chief-designer at Laurin & Klement in Mladá Boleslav, and Vienna-bornIng. Heinz Elpel later worked for the Prague company Breitfeld, Daněk & Co. andfrom August 1913 he was a designer at the Etrich Flugzeugwerke company of oneof the best Austrian aircraft designers, Igo Etrich, a native of the Upper Old Town(Oberaltstadt) near Trutnov. Therefore, it is not out of place to recall the circumstancesof these flights. And the later fate of both aircraft was certainly not colorless.Even, if former Elpel´s aircraft ended up in Japan before outbreak of WW1.

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