Igo Etrich

Ignaz "Igo" Etrich (25 December 1879 – 4 February 1967) was an Austrian flight pioneer, pilot and fixed-wing aircraft developer.

Meanwhile, Wels visited Paris to study the aircraft of the Wright brothers and split with Etrich over the question of whether to build a monoplane or biplane.

Etrich continued to refine the Taube so as to meet the specifications of the military, which included the requirement to be able to land on a freshly plowed field.

[3] In 1912 he founded Etrich Fliegerwerke in Liebau (today Lubawka, Poland) and designed an aircraft with an enclosed cabin for the passengers, which he named Luft-Limousine.

After World War I, Etrich moved back to his birthplace Trautenau (now Trutnov) in the newly founded Czechoslovakia, and built the Sport-Taube.

This reverse side of the coin shows the “Etrich-Taube” as well as the “Zanonia” glider and a waving Igo Etrich sitting in the open cockpit of a plane.