Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Dutrieuc.jpg

 
Original - Helene Dutrieu in her airplane, c. 1911. Dutrieu was the first Belgian woman to earn a pilot's license.
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Helene Dutrieu was the fourth woman in the world to earn a pilot's license and possibly the first to carry passengers. She was the first woman to earn the French Legion of Honor for aviation. She was also world cycling champion, a stunt motorcyclist, an automobile racer, a wartime ambulance driver, and director of a military hospital. I've located and restored a well composed but very dirty archival file of her c. 1911 in her aircraft (the original Image:Dutrieua.jpg had 12,000-15,000 dirt and dust specks). Hard work, which I hope is worth it.
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Helene Dutrieu
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Bain News Service
  • Strong Support : Good enc. value, good "pop" -- Dutrieu was a babe! --and is clearly having a ball. Part of the pop is that she appears (at first glance) to be flying barefoot. [Looks at article] Wow. She was a cycling world champion, stunt cyclist, stunt motorcyclist, automobile racer, stunt driver, pioneer aviator, wartime ambulance driver, and director of a military hospital! A proto extreme-sports babe! Excellent photo, great story. Cheers, Pete Tillman (talk) 17:25, 22 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Weak Support. As others point out, the composition could have been much better with just some slight adjustments. Still, it's a very interesting shot, and in my view the wires that NauticaShades points out are features, not bugs.--ragesoss (talk) 18:54, 22 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted Image:Hélène Dutrieu.jpg MER-C 04:03, 25 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]