RAMON FRANCO AIR PIONEER Photo Label Victor 79633 RARE

$

200

Label: -Victor (Photo Label) (Made in Argentina) Diameter: -10" Speed: -78 R.P.M. Catalog Number/s: -79633 Matrix/ces: -2 / 1 Stamper/s: -B / A Location / Date of Recording: -Buenos Aires, 1926 Language: -Spanish Selection/s: -Todo por la Raza / Salutación del Mayor Zanni al Comandante Franco (Extracto del Discurso Pronunciado en el Teatro Cervantes, Buenos Aires) Artist/s: -Comandante Ramón Franco (Spoken Record) / Mayor Pedro Zanni (Ace and Pioneer of the Argentine Air Force) (Spoken Record) Comments: -Ramón Franco y Bahamonde (1896-October 1938) born in El Ferrol, together with Francisco they were two national heroes in Spain during the days of the Spanish Repúblic and the Primo de Rivera dictatorship. His brother Nicolás was less well known of the three.

Ramón was a remarkable spanish aviator, though he started his career as an ordinary succesful military officer in the infantry, assigned to Morocco in 1914. In 1920 he joined the Spanish Air Force, participating in activities that earned him international attention. In 1926 he was the pilot who led the crew that made the trans-Atlantic flight from Palos de Moguer (Huelva) to Buenos Aires, Argentina in the hydroplane 'Plus Ultra', making him a national hero. The event appeared in most of the major newspapers world wide, though some of them underlining the fact that the airplane itself plus the technical expertise were foreign. As a consequence of that, a news commentator working for "Spanish National Radio", at the time, said on air: "the fry-pan is German, the oil is Italian, but the pairs of eggs are totally Spanish made". Through out the Spanish-speaking world the Spanish aviators were glamorously acclaimed, particularly in Argentina and Spain where thousands gathered at Christopher Columbus square in Madrid.

In 1929 he attempted another trans-Atlantic flight, this time crashing the airplane to the sea. The crew was rescued days later by an aircraft carrier of the British Royal Navy.

During the dictatorship of Miguel Primo de Rivera he declared himself in several occasions against the regime. He dedicated himself to conspire against the Monarchy, inflicted losses on the army and was reduced to prison, from where he was able to escape. In October 1930, along with other republican aviators, he seized some aircraft in the aerodrome of Cuatro Vientos and flew over Madrid with the intention to bomb the Palacio Real, an action that he could not realize. He fled to Portugal and returned to Spain when the Second Spanish Republic was proclaimed. Reentering the Army, he was named chief of a main directorate of Aeronautics, a position which he was dismissed shortly afterwards by his participation in an anarchist revolt in Andalusia. He was elected as a deputy in the Cortes for Esquerra Republicana in Barcelona, retiring from the army and focused on politics.

When the Spanish Civil War exploded in July 1936, he was in the United States as an air attaché of the Spanish Embassy. When he returned to Spain, in spite of his political ideology, he joined the Nationalist side, where his brother Francisco was one of the main leaders. He was promoted to lieutenant Colonel and was named head of the Aerial Base of Majorca. This post was badly accepted by other officers, who rejected that Ramón, a Freemason who had been dismissed, had been promoted over officers with war merits. He was killed in October of 1938 when his hydroplane crashed off the coast of the island of Majorca, while attempting to bomb the republican zone in Valencia.

From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramon_Franco

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