page_title: Gabriele von Schrenck-Notzing
section_title: Aviation training and career
hierarchical_section_title: Gabriele von Schrenck-Notzing / Aviation training and career
caption_attribution_description: English: German Baroness Gabriele von Schrenck-Notzing at the controls of a biplane, London Aerodrome, Hendon, Great Britain, 1912 (full view, public domain).
context_page_description: Gabriele von Shrenck-Notzing was a German baroness and 20th century female aviator.
context_section_description: During the second decade of the new century, Gabriele von Schrenck-Notzing became an aviator. 
  Taught to fly biplanes by several of the most accomplished male aviators of her day, she studied with the French aviator and aircraft designer, Roger Sommer, at his school in Douzy, France in October, 1911, and then again at his larger facility in Mourmelon, France 1912. The March 23, 1912 edition of Flight reported on her activities as follows:
  Mourmelon. – Sommer School. – Lieuts. Mailfert and Bosquet were out on monoplanes, and Bathiat tested four new military monoplanes fresh from the works. The pupils, Lieut. de Clerck, Baroness de Schrenck, David and Revelli each made several rounds of the course. Robinet carried several passengers on his biplane.
  In May 1912, she took her first lesson with British aviator Lewis W. F. Turner, the chief instructor at the Grahame-White School, which operated out of the London Aerodrome on Collindale Avenue in Hendon. According to the June 1, 1912 edition of Flight, "Friday, Mr. Lewis Turner was at instruction flights on Biplane No. 10, afterwards taking up tree new pupils in the passenger seat, viz., Lieut. Rathbone, Baroness Schenk [sic], and Mr. Scully." Later that same month, she was reported as "doing circles ... on Howard Wright" as part of her instruction. The weather that date was described as "none too good, a mixture of fog, remous and a ten-mile wind." She went up in the biplane at least two more times that month, and was recorded as "doing straights." The June 29 edition of this same publication also noted that she had filed entry papers to fly in the Ladies' Aviation Meeting, a competition for female aviators at the London Aerodrome in July 1912.
  Later that same month (July 1912), she damaged her biplane while landing. According to Flight's July 27 edition: 
  The school, waking to a fine morning on Monday last week, turned out in force at 4 o'clock....
  In the evening, Mr. Roupell out again ... had to put in for repairs. Baroness Schenk [sic] making excellent straights, but after landing hurriedly to avoid some people had to turn sharply on the ground, the strain on the tail skid severely damaging the tall cellule.
  She then continued to have equipment problems for the remainder of the month. Per Flight's August 3, 1912 edition, her "engine broke a tappet rod."
caption: German Baroness Gabriele von Schrenck-Notzing at the controls of a biplane, London Aerodrome, Herndon, Great Britain, 1912 (full view, public domain)
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