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1910
1910 - 0084.PDF
(jygHT] JANUARY 29, 1910. Mr. Cody Flies Again. THE time limit for the J£i,ooo prize for a flight from Liverpool to Manchester expired on Wednesday, and Mr. Cody has waited in vain for a favourable opportunity to make the trip, and secure the prize. On Friday, however, he made a successful short flight at Aintree before packing up his machine preparatory to returning to London. He rose to a height of about 150 ft., and flew above Melling and on to Magshull, and eventually landed in front of the grand stand on Aintree racecourse. A Flying Ground near London. ALTHOUGH Mr. Claude Grahame-White's school for flyers at Pau has proved very popular, its distance from London is a great disadvantage, and so arrangements have been made with regard to an extensive tract of land near Hendon, which, when cleared, will, it is thought, form an ideal flying ground, giving a 2-mile circuit. As soon as everything is ready Mr. Grahame-White hopes to transfer the six Bleriot monoplanes which are at present at Pau to his new flying ground, and he is also making arrangements to secure two Henry Farman machines. One of his most promising pupils is Miss Spencer Kavanagh, who, under her professional name of Miss Spencer, is well known for her daring parachute flights. One of the latest pupils to join the school is Mr. Armstrong Drexel, son of Mr. Anthony Drexel, the well-known American magnate, A Monoplane at Northampton. AT their Northampton works, Messrs. Mulliner and Co. at the present time have under construction a monoplane, which will be fitted with a 35-40-h.p. motor. Col. Mulliner and Mr. Gordon Stewart are supervising the work of building the machine. Bleriot does The main Under the method of construction of his monoplanes M. away with the necessity of huge places for housing them, planes can be quite readily folded down to the sides, the whole being brought well within the compass of the main framework. In the above photograph a Bleriot is seen with its planes fully set after coming out of its dock, seen behind. In our other photo the same machine is seen folded up. 80 The Bleriot monoplane, with its main planes folded up ready for housing or travelling. AeC.F. Official Flying "Week. As was anticipated some time ago, the Aero Club of France have decided to hold their official flying meeting this year at the Croix d'Hins aerodrome, near Bordeaux, and have fixed upon September 9th-18th as the dates. Van den Born Flies Across Country. BY flying across country from Buoy to Suippes and back on Sunday last M. Van den Born secured the Paul Buirette prize. The ten miles between the two places were traversed at a good speed, in spite of the fact that a strong wind was blowing, and that snow was falling heavily. Van den Born landed at Sui[ pes, where he was welcomed by the municipal authorities. Mdlle. Dutrieux Has a Fall. ON the 21st inst., while Mdlle. Helene Dutrieux was practising on her Santos- Dumont machine at Issy, she had a some what exciting experience, which fortunately ended without injury to herself. The ground was very muddy and heavy, and in her endeavours to get the machine to rise Mdlle. Dutrieux pushed the elevating-lever right over, with the result that the machine shot up very suddenly to a height of ten metres. It flew along for a few minutes, and then as suddenly fell forward, and after striking the earth remained stand ing perpendicularly. Much to the relief of the terror-stricken onlookers, Mdlle. crawled out from her seat quite unhurt by the fall.
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