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1910 - 0047.PDF
JANUARY 15, 1910. day. At the Wright aerodrome, Tissandier has made many trials of 25 minutes, sometimes accompanied by a pupil, sometimes alone. Calendar of Flight Events. AT the meeting of the Federation Aeronautique Internationale, held at the Aero Club of France on Monday last, the sitting, although it lasted for some seven hours, was mainly devoted to the arrange ment of the calendar of flying meetings to be held this year. A list of dates proposed for French meetings was presented, and a huge number of representatives of the organisers of this meeting were admitted to the conference chamber. This led to a fierce discussion, for two meetings were proposed at Rheims, which clashed with rne of the two British dates asked for, so that Mr. Roger W. Wallace. Chairman of the Aero Club of the U.K., had to make a firm stand before he carried his point. He protested against the claims of Great Britain being ignored, and even threatened to withdraw from the con ference, in which action he was supported by the German and Swedish representatives. Eventually a compromise was arrived at, and Great Britain was allotted from July nth to 16th and also from August 6th to (3th. The other dates will be found included in chrono logical order in our diary of forthcoming events on page 48. Practice at Issy. THE outstanding event at Issy last week-end was the spectacular flying of Rougier on the 7th inst. Flying with the greatest ease he made several circuits of the camp and gradually flew wider and wider until he was passing over the Seine and above Grenelle. He even tually landed by a gliding flight from a height of about 100 metres. Later in the day Rougier again repeated this performance, except that he then glided down from a height of 150 metres. Newcomers to Issy are MM. Bothy and Soufrougel, two Belgian aviators who are experimenting with a monoplane, which has a tail similar to the Santos Dumont machine. Several flights of about 300 to 500 metres have been made on the machine. Another new monoplane is the Thauris which M. Paul de Lesseps has been testing. MM. Nieupont and Vendome have also made short flights on their respective monoplanes. Humber-Bleriots at Cannes. CAPT. DAWES and Mr. Neale have been practising at Cannes since the 5th inst. on the two Humber-built Bleriot monoplanes which Mr. Ballin Hinde has entered for the Cairo meeting. So far, however, no striking success has attended their efforts although many short trial flights have been made. On the 5th inst. Mr. Neale's machine was caught in the boggy ground and thrown forward, being slightly damaged, while on the 7th inst. Capt. Dawes had a slight accident, apparently through the machine being caught unawares in a sudden gust of wind. Some further details regarding the doings of these British flyers are embodied in a letter E/UcHT from a correspondent, who writes under date of Jan. 1 ith, from Cannes, as follows :— " The ground here is no better than Brooklands, plenty of ditches and soft boggy ground. The track, a racecourse, is rough, and on the whole not suitable for beginners. " Mr. Neale last Wednesday made his first attempt here, and after a short flight, in trying to turn rallied too sharply. The machine went at a dangerous angle, he righted it, and brought it to ground seemingly on the track, but it proved to be soft ground. The wheels dug in up to the hub, and the machine went forward, break ing supports, but not propeller. This is the serious accident reported generally as ' fell from a height of 16 ft." After three days spent in repairs, spares not having arrived, he (lew about a quarter of a mile quite successfully. " Captain Dawes was not in any way injured, and has only had so far one accident. The reason for coming here was to complete his training on a good ground, but the only advantages are the quiet days, with no wind." Breguet Flying at Douai. ON the 5th inst. at the Brayelle Aerodrome, Douai, Breguet made three rounds of the course in 5 mins. 19 sees, at a height of ten metres, and in the afternoon he won the Vertongen prize of 1,000 francs. M. Sommer Flying Again. M. SOMMER has now got the first of the biplanes of his own design completed, and at its first trial at Manzor, in the Ardennes, on the 4th inst., a flight of four kilo metres was made. Two other trials of similar duration were made and two days later they were again repeated. The Napoule Aerodrome. JUDGING by the preparations which are being made at the Napoule Aerodrome at Cannes, there should be a good deal of flying going on there shortly. Five Wright aeroplanes are being re-erected by the Societe Ariel, while the Due de Guiches has an Antoinette monoplane, and the Vicomte de Bonchamps, Comte de Mersan, and M. Maurice Becu also intend to commence experiments there with monoplanes. Photo h Dr. IV. J. S. Lockyer. HAMPTON COURT PALACE.—Bird's-eye view from " Corona " balloon at an altitude of 2,800 ft. on June 29th, 1908. 43
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