Schneider-Trophy

The Schneider Trophy - the official name " Coupe d'Aviation Maritime Jacques Schneider ", also Schneider Cup (Schneider Cup ) called - was a race for seaplanes. He was called in 1911 by the Frenchman Jacques Schneider, a balloonist and aircraft lovers, into life.

Originally intended to promote the technical development in the field of civil aviation, the Cup in the aftermath quickly developed into a competition, which was attended by developed exclusively for racing machines.

Partly were the events which took place on a triangular course from an initial 280 km, 350 km later, watched by over 200,000 spectators.

The rules of the Schneider Cup stipulated that an air sports club, who won 3 races in 5 years for himself, was allowed to keep the trophy; the pilot received a cash prize of 75,000 French francs.

Each race was held in the country from which came the last year's winner. Was hosted together with the previous winning country the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale.

Chronicle of the race

Training accidents

In contrast to the competitions that were spared from serious accidents, casualties in the preparations from 1923 to 1931 ten drivers deadly.