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| − | [[Image:Dimitrios-kamperos-01.jpg|thumb|350px|'''Dimitrios Kamperos''' with the first Greek military machine, a Farman officially named '''Daedalus''', again early-middle [[1912]], at the Athens Zoo]]
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| − | First Lieutenant Artillery, [[Dimitrios Kamperos]] (or '''Kamberos''') and who was known as ''Trelo Kamperos'' (meaning Crazy Kamperos) was the first Greek military pilot.
| + | *[[1821]]: Greeks captured [[Tripolis]] during the [[War of Independence]] against Turkey |
| − | | + | *[[1995]]: Ecumenical [[Patriarch Bartholomew I]] visited [[Patmos]] as part of the celebration of the 1,900 anniversary of the writing of the Book of Revelation by the [[Evangelist John]]. |
| − | On [[May 13]], [[1912]] First lieutenant [[Dimitrios Kamberos]] flew the first military Henry Farman aircraft, and later participated in Army manoeuvres. In June of the same year while the establishment of a Naval Air Service was being examined, Kamperos, having converted the first Henry Farman «Daedalus» into a hydroplane flew at an average speed of 110Km per hour thus achieving a new world record. At the same time another pioneer, [[Alexandros Karamanlakis]], conducting a flight from Phaleron to [[Patra]]s with a 50-hp Bleriot aircraft performed an unsuccessful ditching in the [[Gulf of Corinth]] and met his death, thus opening the pantheon of the sacrifices of the Hellenic epopee in the skies.
| + | *[[2000]]: [[Pyrros Dimas]] won gold in weightlifting at the Sydney Olympiad. |
| − | | + | <span style="font-size:11px; padding-top:3px;">Recent days: [[September 22]] - [[September 21]]</span> |
| − | In late September [[1912]], the «Aviators Company» consisting of four officers pilots, was set up in [[Larissa]]. The first combat air unit was a reality. The pilots were: [[Dimitrios Kamperos]], ''First Lieutenant Artillery''; [[Mihail Moutousis]], ''First Lieutenant Corp of Engineers''; [[Panoutsos Notaras]], ''Second Lieutenant Cavalry''; [[Mihail Adamidis]], ''Second Lieutenant Cavalry''.
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| − | [[Dimitrios Kamperos]] not only was the first Greek military pilot, he survived the Balkan Wars and the [[World War I|First World War]]. He was chief instructor for many years in the Greek military flying school and eventually died of cold and hunger, during the German occupation of 1941-44. | |
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| − | ==Read also== | |
| − | *Hellenic Airplanes - from 1912 to today, ''by George Kandylakis''. Publisher: IPMS Greece, 1992
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| − | [[Category:Hellenic Air Force Pilots|Kamperos, Dimitrios]] | |