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 ...PRIL 20, 1912. Ij^ML
MISS QUIMBY FLIES THE CHANNEL.
ALTHOUGH Miss Harriet Quimby has made an enviable reputation
for herself as a capable pilot in America, her native country, she
has not been very well-known on this side of the Atlantic, and no
doubt few of our ...
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 ...aeroplanes?
On board you'll find;
Wg Cdr Roland Beamont
begins his account of how he
led the first Hawker Tempest V
Wing into battle in 1944
How L E. Baynes made the
'Flying Flea' safe to fly
Harriet Quimby — the first
woman pilot to fly the English
Channel
• Report on a preserved
airworthy P-38J Lightning
destined for the UK
• Supermarine Scimitar precursors
FAA calls for A300 modi...
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 ...eelunch, my favourite PRO.
wants to know whether he can have a
little more information. As much fuel
as an Olympus? Or a Walter Mikron?
I wouldn't know, but we're having
lunch anyway.
Left. Mrs Harriet Quimby. an intrepid American lady of the iky. About the same year as, right. Mrs William Covin, 1911 fU^jM- TjA^vr...
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 ...46 FLIGHT
WOMEN IN AVIATION . .
(Left to right) Miss Harriet Quimby, an early American pilot; she was the first woman to
fly solo across the English Channel when she piloted a Gnome-engined B/er/ot from Dover to
a point near Boulogne in April, 1912. B...
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 ...titions. Mr. Roger
Wallace, K.C., retired from the Chairmanship of the
R.Ae.C, and was succeeded by Sir C. D. Rose, Bart.
In April the first cross-Channel flight by a woman pilot
was made by Miss Harriet Quimby, and the St. George's
Channel was crossed by an aeroplane for the first time,
Mr. Corbett Wilson being the pioneer. Mr. D. L. Allen
lost his life in essaying a flight from Holyhead t...
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 ...[pgjjS JULY 6, 1912.
FOREIGN AVIATION NEWS.
Pekin-Paris Race Postponed.
OWING to advices from Siberia and the East, and by arrange
ment with the manufacturers, it has been decided to postpone the ...
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 ...ceiving letters regarding the matter, and Miss Quimby's parents
authorise me to make this statement as executor of her estate.
JOHN A. SLEICHER (executor of the last will and
testament of the late Harriet Quimby).
New York, September 5th.
® ® ® ®
PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.
Modeles d Aeroplanes ; leur Construction. By A. Fieux. Paris :
Librairie Aeronautique, 40, rue de Seine. Price 2 fr.
The ...
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 ...n addition, the Standard Oil
people propose to assist the inventor in properly financing his enter
prise and in marketing the motor.
Miss Quimby Coming to Europe.
WE learn from New York that Miss Harriet Quimby, who has
now left the Moisant Company, will shortly be paying a visit to
Europe, and hopes to take part in some competitions against the
French aviatr esses. She will also seek a fas...
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 ...wo previously he took Gaona,
a popular bull-fighter, for a trip. During the flying week held in
connection with the Presidential installation during the previous
week Miss Matilde Moisant and Miss Harriet Quimby were out on
their Moisant monoplane over the Valbuena flying ground nearly^
every day, and on one occasion they were both aloft at one time.
"OISEAU BLEU."
II1...
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 ...aviators among the gentler sex is
being gradually added to. The first to obtain her certificate under
the new rules was Madame Driancourt, at the French Caudron
School, but soon after her was Miss Harriet Quimby, of California,
who qualified on a Moisant monoplane at Mineola, N.Y., on
August 1st. Miss Matilda Moisant, sister of the late J. B. Moisant,.
has also qualified for a pilot's licenc...
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 ...FOREIGN AVIATION NEW
The Pekin to Paris Race.
THE regulations governing this event has now been approved
by the Aero Club of France and issued. The event will be inter
national as far as the pilot...
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 ...—
S/OGHT]
'©REHGN
The World's Altitude Record.
A CABLE from America states that on Saturday last at Chicago
Oscar Brindley on a Wright biplane beat the world's height record
by going up to 11,72...
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 ...NOVEMBER 16, 1912 l/HGHT]
CORRESPONDENCE.
*.* The name and address of the writer (not necessarily for publication) MDST in all cases accompany utters intended for insertion.
or containing queries. ...
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 ...SEPTEMBER 24TH, 194* FLIGHT Advertisements. 25
The Modern Edition of that Warm Favourite
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Sails" sky-high
HE activities of the new Uncle Tom, issued by Johnson Bros., are followed with warm
a...
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 ...It is a measure o theunequ jailed capability of British Aerospace that we have won .worldwide success on the frontiers Of aerospace technology with pioneei
concepts such as the VSTOLSea Harriet and w...
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 ...C/AJO HARRIET Firstin its classis tne aircraftdesigned mlm% IO nUllll C I for both fighter and attack missions, the
F/A-18 Hornet. The Hornet can handle roles as different as air combat and bad
weat...
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 ...JSF contest nears final phase
THE CLIMATIC final stage of the US Joint Strike Fighter
(JSF) competition is to begin on 15
April, with the release of a request
for information (RFI) to the Boe
ing...
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 ...In support to the further development of the Single European Sky initiative, the EUROCONTROL Agency has received seven (7) mandates from the European Commission, of which one
seeks assistance in faci...
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 ...DEFENCE
Ferranti lasers used in Falklands
Ferranti laser designators
with British ground forces
in the Falklands were used
to illuminate targets for
Harriers carrying laser-guided
bombs. Eight ...
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 ...30 FLIGHT, 6 July 1961
Cody's biplane and Gustav Harriet's Bleriot mono-
plane at Harrogate on July 24, 1911, in the Circuit
of Britain Race for the "Daily Mail" £10,000 prize.
(See letter below from ...
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