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Ansaldo A.300

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A.300 Role Reconnaissance aircraft Manufacturer Gio. Ansaldo & C. First flight 1919 Number built ~850 The Ansaldo A.300 was an Italian general-purpose biplane aircraft built by the Ansaldo company (now part of FIAT) of Turin from 1920 to 1929. It also served as a light bomber, transport, fighter and reconnaissance aircraft, and finally as an advanced trainer, with examples in service as late as 1940. 50 examples were also license-built in Poland at ZM E. Plage & T. Laśkiewicz, but were not a success due to poor quality. Development Based on Ansaldo's highly successful World War I Balilla and S.V.A scouts, the A.300 was a conventional single-engined two-bay open cockpit biplane of mixed metal and wood-and-fabric construction, powered usually by a water-cooled Fiat A.12bis V12 engine. Most variants had two fixed Vickers guns and one mobile gun mounted in the rear cockpit. It first flew in 1919. Early examples were two seaters, but...

Pierre Marinovitch

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Pierre Marinovitch Pierre Marinovitch Nickname(s) Marino Born 1 August 1898 Paris, France Died 2 October 1919 (aged 21) Brussels, Belgium Allegiance France Service/branch Armée de l'Air Years of service 1916–19 Rank Lieutenant Unit Escadrille SPAD 94 Battles/wars World War I Awards Légion d'honneur Croix de Guerre (with 10 palms) Pierre Marinovitch (Serbian: Petar Marinović ; 1 August 1898 – 2 October 1919) was a French World War I flying ace credited with 22 aerial victories. He was killed in an air accident following the war. Contents 1 Early life 2 World War I 3 Death 4 Notes 5 References 6 External links Early life Pierre Marinovitch was born in Paris on 1 August 1898, to Velizar and Agripina Marinović ( née Bronkov). [1] His father was a Serb and his mother was Polish. [2] Marinovitch's paternal grandfather, Jovan Marinović, served as Prime Minister of Serbia between 1873...

Death (personification)

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"Grim Reaper" redirects here. For other uses, see Grim Reaper (disambiguation). Statue of Death, personified as a human skeleton dressed in a shroud and clutching a scythe, from the Cathedral of Trier in Trier, Germany A Western depiction of Death as a skeleton wielding a scythe Death , due to its prominent place in human culture, is frequently imagined as a personified force, also known as the Grim Reaper . In some mythologies, the Grim Reaper causes the victim's death by coming to collect them. In turn, people in some stories try to hold on to life by avoiding Death's visit, or by fending Death off with bribery or tricks. Other beliefs hold that the Spectre of Death is only a psychopomp, serving to sever the last ties between the soul and the body, and to guide the deceased to the afterlife, without having any control over when or how the victim dies. Death is most often personified in male form, although in certain cultures Death is perceived as femal...