Leonard Warden Bonney

Mon Oct 12, 2009 1:54 am

Greetings all,

here you are very interesting text on Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Warden_Bonney

What is specially interesting for me is the fact that he is performed first dive bomb ever:

1914 to 1915, military aviator Mexican Government under Gen. Carranza, bomb dropping and observation Tampico, Vera Cruz, Mexico City;

Any info about the Moisant airplane in which he perform first attack in dive?

Cheers

Mon Oct 12, 2009 3:46 am

Not sure if it's related or not, but John Moisant was a famous early aviator...he was supposed to have crashed in New Orleans around 1910 and died soon after. The airport there (and my former workplace) has the identifier of KMSY in his honor.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Moisant

Maybe the aircraft was one of his designs?

Mon Oct 12, 2009 4:56 am

He made his own constructions but the machine he flew in Mexico is not his, this was Moissant pusher. Any Mexican historian here on board?

Cheers