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Marc Marie Edmond Armand Pourpe [1] (17 May 1887 – 2 December 1914) was a French aviation pioneer and stunt flyer. His mother was Anne-Marie Chassaigne, later known as the famous courtesan Liane de Pougy, and his father a young naval officer, Armand Pourpe. He made the first airmail flight in Egypt flying from Cairo to Khartoum.
Marc Marie Edmond Armand Pourpe, né le 17 mai 1887 à Lorient et mort le 2 décembre 1914 à Villers-Bretonneux [1], est un pilote qui fait partie des pionniers de l'aviation française [2]. Il est le fils de Liane de Pougy.
Marc Pourpe, a now quite forgotten french aviator, but who did pretty well around 1911-1914, and that died at the beginning of WW1 in the air, asked him for a plane, needed for raid in Egypt. Finally, he had to go to Léon Morane's firm to obtain one... despite the huge publicity he made for Blériot's plane in exhibitions and succesfull raids ...
Marc Pourpe, l’aviateur de l’Orient. Il faut se féliciter que, malgré la fin de la période du centenaire de l’éclosion de l’aviation, puisse encore sortir aujourd’hui une biographique d’une « vieille tige » (pilote-aviateur breveté avant le déclenchement de la Grande Guerre) telle que celle-ci.
During his travels, Lufbery had worked as a mechanic on the airplane flown by French exhibition pilot Marc Pourpe, and the two became best friends. Pourpe joined the French air force, and when...
Marc Marie Edmond Armand Pourpe, né le 17 mai 1887 à Lorient et mort le 2 décembre 1914 à Villers-Bretonneux, est un pilote qui fait partie des pionniers de l'aviation française. Cet article est une ébauche concernant l’ aéronautique.
He met Raoul Lufbery in Calcutta in 1912 and brought on the young American as a mechanic. Both Pourpe and Lufbery flew in WWI. Pourpe was killed in a crash in 1914, while Lufbery went on to be one of the top aces in the Lafayette Escadrille. Lufbery was killed in 1918.
