Joseph Frantz
Joseph Frantz , born on August 7th, 1890 with Beaujeu (the Rhone), is famous pilot French of the First World War.
With the whole beginning of the Great War, affected with the flotilla V 24 based on the ground of Lhéry in the Marne, it was distinguished with a few kilometers in the North-West from Rheims while gaining over Voisin biplane on October 5th, 1914, with the assistance of the sapper mechanic Louis Quenault who was armed with a machine-gun Hotchkiss, the very first air victory of the world history of aviation by cutting down German Aviatik in forty seven balls. The following year, always on Close plane, it descended a second German apparatus.
After the war, Joseph Frantz became test pilot in Voisin. He was the founder president of the association of the “Old Stems”.
Large officer of the Legion of honor, holder of the Military decoration, the Military Cross and the Medal of Aeronautics, it controlled until the eighty years age.
Joseph Frantz died out with Paris on September 12th, 1979 at the age of quatre-vingt-neuf years.