After a brief pilot training course in Corsica on a Farman MF.7, he returned to engineering, designing a patented forward-facing monitoring device to improve maintenance monitoring within flight squadrons (estimated to have saved fifty lives), and took part in the trials of the first radio equipment installed in Italian aircraft.
A Greek plane was converted to a hydroplane, flown by Michael Moutoussis and with Aristeidis Moraitinis as observer, it carried out the world's first air-naval co-operation mission during the First Balkan War.
May 1923 Air Union Farman Goliath crash | Shah Farman | Melissa Farman | Maurice Farman | Farman MF.7 | Farman F.51 | Farman F.430 | Farman F.40 | Farman F.120 | August 1923 Air Union Farman Goliath crash |