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1909
1909 - 0475.PDF
AUGUST 7, 1909. Monday last made a couple of circuits of the Juvisy course with perfect ease, and appeared to have his machine under complete control. Flight in Holland. REFERRING to M. Le Fevre's demonstrations in Holland, mentioned last week, one of our readers at The Hague sends us the following details:— "A young French engineer, Monsieur Le Fevre, is at present making some interesting trial flights on a Wright aeroplane in the Polders, some fields which were placed at the disposal of the committee who are organising the exhibition, by a well-known Dutch sports- man. Unfortunately the weather has been very much against aerial navigation, but in spite of adverse elements, M. Le Fevre made a splendid flight of several kiloms. on Friday evening, July 30th. After a four hours' wait on account of wind, the machine was taken out of its shed, placed in position, and the spectators were rewarded by seeing it rush with a whirr down the rail and rise in the air like a bird. The aviator made for a clump of trees over which he passed into the adjoining field, around which he circled in a wide sweep, returning in grand style to the place of departure, where he was vociferously cheered. Instead of descending, he attempted another round, but on the way back the motor stopped and he came to the ground without the slightest shock. There are always great difficulties in the way of getting the aeroplane back to its shed should it come down at any distance away on account of the numerous wide ditches which intersect fields in Holland in every direction. The first time M. Le Fevre was out he fell into one of these, and the machine was extricated with difficulty. A large stand has been erected in the field, and the organising committee hoped to have had many visitors to their aerial exhibition, but up to now the weather conditions seem more favourable to swimming than to flying, the field being under water owing to the abnormal quantity of rain for the time of year." On Wednesday M. Le Fevre made two flights, the first being witnessed by the Prince Consort, who con- gratulated the aviator, and displayed a lively interest in the working of the flyer, as it was explained 10 His Royal Highness by M. Le Fevre. First Flight in Sweden. SWEDEN now has its flying man, and on Tuesday the first recorded flight in a heavier-than-air machine over Swedish soil was accomplished. Mounted on a Voisin machine, Folmer Hansen, who, it will be remembered, has been practising at Issy and Juvisy, succeeded in making two short flights at Stockholm. The first was of three minutes and the second of two and a half minutes, and the 20,000 spectators who had gathered to see the proceedings loudly cheered the aviator on his success. Honour for Mr. Latham. THE Worshipful Company of Clothworkers, of which Mr. Latham's great grandfather, Mr. Thomas Latham, was Master during 1810 and 1811, have conferred the freedom of their company honoris causa upon the plucky pilot of the Antoinette monoplane. Latham to Take a Passenger. DEPRIVED of any immediate chance of a prize for a solo flight across the Channel, amongst the many con- flicting rumours afloat, Mr. Latham now purposes, it is stated, taking a passenger so as to comply with the conditions under which M. Deutsch de la Meurthe offered ^1,000 some little while ago. The passenger in question, as our readers may remember, however, has got to be Colonel Renard, and we have not yet heard that the invitation, if issued, has been accepted. HUBERT LATHAM'S SECOND CHANNEL ATTEMPT.—The aviator overtaking the French torpedo-destroyer " Escopette * soon after leaving the French coast, which can be discerned dimly in the distance. 477
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