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1910
1910 - 0244.PDF
1/LIGHTI MARCH 26, ioto. Flying at Eastchurch. MR. P. GRACE flew from Eastchurch to Leysdown on Sunday last on his Voisin machine and at times reached a height of 100 feet. Unfortunately, on arriving at Leysdown the motor stopped and the machine was slightly smashed in its too sudden descent. On Monday, Mr. Grace was out on his Short-Wright machine and flew for 3^ minutes. The Short-Wright and Sommer machines belonging to the Hon. C. S. Rolls which were on view at Olympia arrived at Eastchurch on Monday morning. Mr. Haldane on Flight. SPEAKING at the annual meeting of the British Science Guild at the Mansion House last week, Mr. Haldane said that we had been behind in the science of navigating ships through the air. But a start had been made which, he thought, was full of promise. There was at Teddington, as part of the National Physical Laboratory, an organisa tion containing architects who had put us, in point of science, at all events, at least abreast of every other nation. It was quite true the ships were not yet built, or very few of them, but they were on their way. Some already existed, and more would exist very shortly. But the point was the organisation had been perfected and brought up to the highest point which experience and knowledge could teach. Ae.C.F. Pilote-Aviateurs. AT their last meeting the Aero Club of France granted a large number of pilote-aviateur certificates, including those to Mr. Moore-Brabazon, Lieut. Calderara, Lieut. Cammerman, Madame de la Roche, Reimsdyck, Morelle, Van den Born, Le Blon, Rene Gasnier, Christiaens, Duray, Jules Tyck, Sands, and Maurice Herbster. Pilote-aeronaute certificates have been granted MM. Delmas and Leon de Bronckere. Boat Builders and Aeroplanes. IN view of the recent tendency in motor boat design towards the hydroplane it is hardly surprising that some builders are turning their thoughts to flying machines. The Tellier works in France, which have turned out some of the speediest motor boats, are responsible for the monoplane seen in the accompanying photographs, and it is being tested by M. Dubonnet, who is famous as a helmsman of racing motor boats. The Tellier monoplane has a span of ir metres, and the length is the same dimension, while the lifting surface is 24 sq. metres. The The Panhard motor fitted to the Tellier monoplane. It will be noticed that the engine is carried on a wooden framework, which has all its edges carefully rounded off. Panhard motor drives a Tellier two-bladed propeller and gives the machine a speed of 70 kiloms. an hour. Dubonnet a Pilote-Aviateur. AT its first trial the Tellier monoplane has proved itself an entire success. On the 16th inst. Dubonnet flew View from the rear of a monoplane which has been built by the Tellier Co., the famous builders of French racing boats. The arrangement of the tail and rudder presents some novel features. It is being tested by M. Dubonnet, another well-known name in motor boating circles. 242
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