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pill AVIATION NI More Flying at Eastchurch. Two flyers were in the air, simultaneously, for the first time at the Aero Club's grounds at Eastchurch on Monday last, when the Hon. C. S. Rolls was aloft on his Short-Wright biplane and Mr. Grace on a \oisin. Mr. Rolls also carried a passenger for some miles during out Slight. On Thursday of last week Mr. Rolls made two flights, one of twenty minutes duration, while Mr. (irai•(.-, who was also out, after making a good flight slightly damaged the wheels of his machine on landing, probably owing to the fro/en state of the ground. Flyers and Politics. Ai.Tiimic.ii aeroplanes are hardly likely to be i into use for the purpose of taking electors to il just yet, it is at least interesting to note that last week Mr. Moore lirabazon decorated his machine with several posters advocating the claims of the Unionist candidate for North Kent, and one just caught a glimpse of wh:it might happen at the next General Election. A Monoplane at Edinburgh. MR. WlLFlUD FOULIS, the well-known Edinburgh motorist, has had the " Lane " monoplane, with which he has been <»p«rJBJenttrig at Brooklands, taken to Edin burgh, and he hopes to shortly resume his trials in the neighbourhood of the Scottish oapital. In generaJ appearance the monoplane is similar to the " Bleriot No. XI " type. It is fitted with a 4-cyl. 30 h.p. N.E.C. motor of the 2-cyole type. Flying Meetings in Great Britain. Of the two dates allotted by the Federation .Vronaiitiijue Internationale to Great Britain, the first— July 1 ith to 16th—has been secured by Bournemouth, who will organise a flying meeting in connection with the Centenary celebrations this year. The second date- August 6th to nth—has not yet been definitely decided, but in several directions applicants are hoping to be the fortunate allottees. In addition to these fixtures, which will be international in character, there is every probability of several other national meetings being organised. Both Edinburgh and Wolverhampton are desirous of having such meetings. The Heliopolis Meeting. OK the fourteen entrants for the flying meeting at Cairo, which opens to-morrow (Sunday), and is to con- KEBRUARY 5, 1910. tinue till the following Sunday, only one, Count Lambert, declared forfeit. The other thirteen are:—Latham (Antoinette), Rougier (Voisin), Balsan (Bleriot), Le Blon (Humber-Bleriot), Gobron (Gobron), Duray (Farman), Mortimer Singer (Farman), Grade (Grade), Michelin (Antoinette), Metrot (Voisin), Riemsdyck (Curtiss), Guyot (Bleriot), Mme. de la Roche (Voisin). During the past week a good deal of practising has been going on, and on Tuesday Mr. Mortimer Singer met with an unfortunate accident, to which further reference is made in the Aero Club notices on p. 93. Mr. Singer's injuries are of such a character that there is little doubt he will not be able to take any active part in the meeting. On Thursday of last week, too, Mr. Latham had a mishap, his machine for some unaccountable reason making a sudden descent from a height of about 50 metres. The machine was badly damaged, but fortunately the aviator escaped unhurt. Rougier made several good short flights last week-end. The Floods in Paris. BOTH the motor and flying industries have been hard hit by the recent floods in Paris and the neighbour hood, and work both at the Voisin factory at Billancourt and the Gnome factory has had to be suspended, as also at the Bayard-Clement, De Dion, Renault, Darracq, Unic, and Charron motor car works. The Voisin works at Issy have also been inundated, while the' Kaufmann, Santos-Dumont, Nieuport, Vendome, Witzig, and M. Clement are under water in their respective hangars there, and will require a good deal of cleaning and tuning up before being fit to fly again. Our French contemporary, L'Anto, has opened a subscription for those motor employes who are suffering by the floods, and the A.C.F. and MM. Panhard-Levassor have each subscribed 10,000 francs. Passenger Records. THE last day of January was noteworthy, for it produced remarkable performances at Chalons on the part of the two Henry Farman pupils, Van den Born and Efimoff, both easily surpassing the world's passenger record standing to the credit of Orville Wright, namely ih. 9m. 45$s. Although the temperature was six degrees below freezing point, Van den Born went up with a passenger at 3.18, and continued flying for ih. 48m. 50s., during which he covered 151 kiloms., The two first British-built Humber-Bleriot monoplanes at Cannes, where Mr. Ballin Hinde took them with the intention of proceeding on to the Heliopolis Aviation Meeting opening next week. 94
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