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    Default Why is this cat on an aeroplane wing?

    I am happily scanning some military postcards ready for listing when I noticed this cat sitting on an aeroplane wing in 1915.

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    I asked myself why?

    I looked a little closer at the aeroplane and on the front is the word Muckchen, which when translated is Little Midges.

    I wonder if that was the cat's name or the aeroplane's name?

    You never know what you find on postcards

    Have you found anything unusual on postcatds?
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    Default Re: Why is this cat on an aeroplane wing?

    No clue!! But it looks more like a dog to me........which would explain everything, wouldn't it??

    As for what I've found on postcards................a photo of my great=grandfather's dry goods store! Well, at least the side of it with the sign.....
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    Default Re: Why is this cat on an aeroplane wing?

    He was never one to shy away from a dog fight.

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    Default Re: Why is this cat on an aeroplane wing?

    I too thought it was a dog. Maybe he/she was a lucky mascot.
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    I think the pilot has to be Max Immelmann - famous German pilot and known for being devoted to his dog, hence the mascot.

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    Default Re: Why is this cat on an aeroplane wing?

    Quote Originally Posted by deanosaur1972 View Post
    I think the pilot has to be Max Immelmann - famous German pilot and known for being devoted to his dog, hence the mascot.
    I did a search on this earlier & came across this name & others.His dog was a bit bigger than the one in the postcard!
    Most websites that host this picture (not the postcard) credit it with being the test plane for the gun synchroniser.One even labels it as being 1912 not 1915.
    The main thing that struck me about it is that the uniform is German Navy.
    I haven't yet found any mention that Immelmann,Oswald Boelcke,Kurt Wintgens or Otto Parschau were in the navy.I'm still looking.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bluebedouin View Post

    The main thing that struck me about it is that the uniform is German Navy.
    Ah but one has to remember that at the time there was no "air force" as such and therefore no "air force" uniform and that the pilots and ground crew came from the other arms of the armed forces, Hence they wore whatever uniform of the armed forces they came from be it Navy or Army.

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    Default Re: Why is this cat on an aeroplane wing?

    Thanks everyone for your input.
    I now think that the animal is a dog, there seemed to be a thing back then that pilots had a dog.
    I've learned so much about Air Force pilots and their planes and pets in the last 24 hours.
    Weren't the first British WW1 pilots rich people that paid for their own planes? or have I got that wrong?

    Collecting postcards is more than just posession of the card it's about learning and research.
    I have boxes of cards that I bought 'blind' from Germany about ten years ago for my collection that I now have time to view, can't wait to see what else turns up over the next week or so.
    I am not an expert, just someone that likes to collect (hoarder ).
    Since I started to sell my cards I have realised just how involving it is, I usually end up web browsing instead of listing
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    Quote Originally Posted by Poscar View Post
    Since I started to sell my cards I have realised just how involving it is, I usually end up web browsing instead of listing
    Oh yes it is amazing what one ends up learning when one deals in postcards lol

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    Default Re: Why is this cat on an aeroplane wing?

    The name on monoplane is Fokker Eindecker which is misspelt on the Post Card.

    Pilots name is Max Immelmann

    Max had a lonely devotion to his pet dog, Tyras, who often slept within or on his bed. which is why he has a cast of his dog on the wing only 46 Eindeckers were built by Immelmann, the picture is of course of Fokker-Eindecker I

    Eindecker means monoplane and was designed by Anthony Fokker in 1915
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