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[/OGHT] Molon at Havre. MOLON seems to be complete master of his Bleriot monoplane now. On the nth inst. he flew for 50 kiloms. over the Bleville plain at Havre in the face of a strong wind, and was only compelled to come down by a drenching downpour of rain. On the 12th inst. he was flying for 1 hr. 24 mins., during which his maximum altitude was 250 metres. Sommer Carries Two Passengers. A'NOTEWORTHY feat was carried out by Sommer on his new biplane on the 8th inst., when he carried two passengers, MM. Bouvier and Petrowsky, for 34 mins. The next day M. Sommer made another of his cross country excursions, flying across to Sedan from Mouzon. On the 10th inst. Paillette, M. Sommer's first pupil, made several short flights, the best being 2 kiloms. in length. Capt. Burgeat a Pilot. ON the 9th inst. Capt. Burgeat, who was one of the first men in France to purchase an Antoinette monoplane, made the third of his qualifying flights for a pilote-aviateur's certificate. He flew three times round the three kilometre course at Chalons and landed in front of his shed. Henry Farman School Busy. LAST Saturday was a busy day for the Farman school, and it was a noticeable fact that only pupils of this school were flying. Frey, Crochon, Cam merman, and Christraens were each trying their machines, while Van den Born gave lessons to Chevalier, Lamine, Nicolas, Kinet Wiesotsky, Osmont and Captain Gibbs, and finished up with a cross-country flight, lasting about fifteen minutes. In the afternoon Van den Born took his wife for a long trip in the "central blue." Henry Farman himself was busy during the day making tests with his new machine. Zig'Zag Flying. HAVING quite recovered from the effects of his accident, Legagneux was flying on M. Bellot's Voisin on the 8th inst. and gave a spectacular display during a quarter of an hour's flight. Rising to a height of 50 metres he flew round Chalons Camp for some time, and then repeatedly varied his altitude, sometimes rising very high and then gliding down t© within a short distance of the earth. Captain Engelhardt flying over the snows on his Wright machine at Saint Moritz. MARCH 19, 1910, Rougier at Monte Carlo. HAVING shown that it was possible to fly from the Quay at Monte Carlo to Cap Martin and back, Rougier continued to make it almost a daily jaunt. He did it for the fourth time on the 8th inst., but on the following day, by way of making a change, he first flew to Cap Martin, and then, after circling three times over the sea, he headed for the mountains behind the town and was lost to sight after crossing La Turbie. He came back round the Tete du Chien, and then after some more manoeuvring over the sea landed on the quay, the flight having lasted 29 minutes. The next day Rougier again varied his excursion by flying over Cap Martin, continuing to Mentone before he turned on his homeward way. Grade to Fly at Leipzig. IT is reported from Leipzig that arrangements have been made with Herr Grade to give a series of exhibition flights on the old cycle racing track, which is to be trans formed into an aerodrome. Herr Grade is at present teaching four pupils at Bork. On the 1 ith inst. he was flying at an altitude of 75 metres. Wright Flyers at Berlin. AT the Johannisthal flying ground at Berlin on the 9th inst., Keidel, on a Wright machine, made seven flights with a passenger, each of about five minutes' duration. Dorner also had a trial, but after flying for ten minutes he landed suddenly from a height of 20 metres, with the result that the machine was badly smashed, although the aviator escaped with a few bruises. Herr Neumann brought out his new machine, which has eight wings and two propellers ; but, unfortunately, two of the wings and one of the propellers were damaged, and so the trials had to be postponed. Siemens-Schuckert Biplane Smashed, THE Siemens-Schuckert biplane came to grief on Saturday last while experiments were being conducted with it on the Bornstedt field, near Berlin. Bourcant, the designer of the machine, had made a flight of a kilo metre in a straight line when he determined to try a passenger flight. For this purpose two fellow employees took their seats, one on each side of him. All went well for about 150 metres, when the motor stopped, and at the same time a violent gust of wind caught the machine. This caused it to drop to the ground and turn turtle, throwing out the occupants. Two of them escaped with slight injuries, but the third, an engineer named Rau, had his leg pinned down by the heavy 50-60-h.p. motor, severely injuring the limb. Flying in Canada. MR. D. C. FRASER, Governor of Nova Scotia, and Major Maunsell, of the Canadian Militia, witnessed flights with the Baldwin-McCurdy biplane at Baddeck, on the 13th inst. In all, eight flights were made, the total distance covered being about 20 miles, while the average altitude was between 50 and 100 ft. Paulhan in New York. ON the 12th inst. Paulhan made a couple of flights, each about two miles in length, at Long Island, one at a height of about 600 ft, and the other at an altitude of 1,000 ft. During these trials, Wilbur Wright, accom panied by his lawyer, was an interested spectator, and took particular note of the way in which Paulhan con trolled his machine. ... •».. • j On Monday Paulhan made a flight of about 15 miles in length, during which he flew out to sea at a height of 500 ft. 220
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