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Originally Posted by Rod_Filan
I was wrong, it was the different spellings of the towns/cities that I found. My guess is Ján Bahŭľ is Slovakian and Bahily János is Hungarian, but maybe someone will confirm that before this Challenge ends.
In the meantime I better keep looking for the ID of your Challenge pic.
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I see you have been very busy together with Paul in exotic far-off aviation history. Bahily was living in the multicultural Austro-hungarian empire during his whole life (he died in 1916). Given that reality he is known under different names in German and other languages.
Johann Bahily or (even) Johann von Bahily in German
Bahily János (Hungarian, who set the family name first)
Ján Bahŭl' (Slovakian)
The German name can be seen on a contemporary picture where pieces of the machine are marked by letters to explain it. Buhaly is in the 'cockpit' of the machine.
The Hungarian name can be seen on the Hungarian patent he had obtained for his invention.
Today it seems Slovakia (Slovenská republika) claims the property of Bahily and his inventions, claiming that this AVION flew a length of 1500 meter at a height of 4 meter in 1905. It is said this flight was authenticated by an international organization, unfortunately it is not told which one
But Bahily was sure an original inventor, little publicized in the literature.
Cheers
Kees