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He learned to fly in France, at the flight school of Henri Farman, where he had
Charles Van den Born as an instructor. Kinet obtained the French pilot's license number 83 in March 1910 in the same week as Jules de Laminne, Joseph Christiaens and Count Malynski. He obtained the Belgian pilot's license
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The Monday before he crashed, he had already experienced a life-threatening situation after one of the wires of his biplane broke during the flight. After landing he said: "See what my life depends on. Had my brother not doubled the wire at the back of my biplane, I would have fallen dead". Because
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the "Grande
Quizaine d’Aviation" was organized by the Belgian aviation club. On the first day of the flying competitions he won the landing price, after landing in the correct place in the correct way. Because of this he was the first of the pilots introduced to the King. After 11 days of
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Vandenborn, one of the best friends and teacher of Kinet, wanted to buy the ground where Kinet creashed for a special memorial. Also the aviation club wanted to do this. Nowadays in Ans the memorial stone for Kinet can be found which can be read in French (in weathered letters):
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at a height of 200 metres, a tension wire broke from his rear wing. The wire ended up in the engine, which stopped abruptly. While his wife was watching, Kinet died after crashing to the ground with the engine causing further injury.
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number 10 on 31 May 1910. Shortly after getting his license, he set a world record after flying a passenger for 2 hours, 51 minutes and 9.2 seconds. He competed in flying races in
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