Maryse Bastié

Maryse Bastié, 1932

Maryse Bastié (born February 27, 1898 in Limoges , † July 15, 1952 in Bron , born Marie-Louise Bombec ) was a French aviation pioneer . The record flyer was called an endurance runner in the firmament , a sprinter in the air or our heavenly trump card by her compatriots . In France, schools, theaters and streets still bear her name today.

Life

Maryse Bastié in the early 1920s

Born as Marie-Louise Bombec in France , she became a half -orphan at the age of eleven and grew up in modest circumstances. Their first marriage was divorced after a short time and their son from this marriage died early. In 1924 she married Lieutenant Louis Bastié , a World War II pilot whose passion for flying she took over and obtained a pilot's license in 1925. Despite her husband's death in a crash in 1926, she stuck to this passion and acquired further flight licenses and her first own aircraft. Maryse Bastié was the first French woman to receive a passenger aircraft driver's license in 1928 and set eight world records in the 1930s. On July 28, 1929, she first made a name for itself when she set the solo flight endurance record for women with 26 hours and 48 minutes and, after improving it by Léna Bernstein to over 35 hours, increased it to 37 hours and 55 minutes in 1930.

On June 28, 1931, she took off on her first long-haul flight , which took her in a 40-hp Klemm Kl 25 from Paris via northern France and Germany to Russia. Without a stopover, she reached Urino near Nizhny Novgorod , which was the non-stop long-distance world record for women and made her so well known internationally that she could live from aviation and advertising income in the future. She founded her own flight school. Arthur Sanfourche, the father of the artist Jean-Joseph Sanfourche , was one of their mechanics.

In 1934 she was the first woman to fly the Paris – Tokyo route there and back. After Jean Batten from New Zealand was the first woman to fly over the southern Atlantic, Bastié wanted to fly the same route in less time. On December 30, 1936, she started in a Caudron Simoun from Dakar to Natal ( Brazil ), which she reached in 12 hours 5 minutes, undercutting her competitor by a good hour. The average speed was 260 km / h. Upon her return to France, she was appointed officer of the French Legion of Honor .

→ The Atlantic flight by Maryse Bastié

In the 1930s she worked as a sales director for an engine and aircraft manufacturer. During the Second World War Bastié served in the French Air Force (supply squadron) under General de Gaulle .

Tomb of Maryse Bastié in Montparnasse

From 1951 Basie worked for the Center for Flight Tests (Center d'essais en vol) in public relations. The pilot, who flew her life without serious accidents, died in July 1952 as a passenger in the crash of a Noratlas after an air show at Lyon-Bron airport . She was buried on the Cimetière Montparnasse in the south of the French capital.

In 1955, Maryse Bastié was honored with her picture by issuing a French airmail stamp.

Records

• June 10, 1930: International record for long-term flights for light aircraft ( Klemm Kl 25 D-1816, 22 hours 24 minutes over Le Bourget)
• August 18, 1930: Improvement of the endurance flight record for light aircraft, with 25 hours 55 minutes (again in Klemm 25 with Salmson 9Ad engine, again via Le Bourget)
• September 4, 1930: Improvement of the endurance flight record for light aircraft with 37 hours and 55 minutes (again in Klemm 25 with Salmson 9Ad engine and via Le Bourget) and at the same time new endurance flight record for women
• June 29, 1931: class record for light aircraft for flights in a straight line, with 2976.91 km from Le Bourget to Urino (Soviet Union), again in a Klemm 25 with a 40-hp Salmson 9Ad engine of class CIII (until 1931) and C.II (from 1931); at the same time non-stop long-distance record for women
• 1934: Paris – Tokyo as the first woman
• 1936: Speed ​​record for the Dakar – Natal route

literature

• Claudia Cunia: Flying Women. Flight information from the Austrian Aviation Archives, episode III + IV / 2009.

Web links

Commons : Maryse Bastié  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• The first women's records

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The first holder of an FAI women's record ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ^ Postage stamp with the image of Maryse Bastié
3. ↑ Class record for light aircraft ( memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ FAI Record File Num # 12338 ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ↑ FAI Record File Num # 12339 ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
6. ↑ FAI Record File Num # 12341 ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
7. ↑ FAI Record File Num # 12345 Distance in a straight line, class C.III ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
8. ↑ FAI Record File Num # 14886 Distance in a straight line, class C.II ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
9. ↑ FAI Record File Num # 12346 Distance in a straight line, Female ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.