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The parade of dirigibles before the German Emperor Homburg last week. for the purpose of starting another school. The ground is part 01 the Arbouville farm, near Angerville, and lies between the Orleans main road and the Paris-Orleans railway. Count Lambert Flies with Miss Roosevelt. A NUMBKR of distinguished visitors last week inspected the French Wright works at Villacoublay, and after Count Lambert had given the usual lessons to the pupils, he took Miss Ethel and Mr. Kermit Roosevelt for short trips in the air on a new type of Wright flyer. Miss Roosevelt declared the experience to have been adorable, and only regretted that her trip was so short. Afterwards Count Lambert took Signor Gabriele d'Annunzio for a short flight. Frey at Poictiers. HAVING obtained delivery of his Sommer biplane, M. Frey conveyed it to Poictiers, and on the 29th ult. made three flights of 10 mins. each with a passenger. These performances were repeated the next day, but on landing from the last trip one of the skids was slightly damaged. The Sommer School at Mouzon. ON the 28th Bouvier made a splendid flight, lasting an hour, during which he carried a passenger, and on the following day Sommer was trying a new machine, and carried the Hon. C. S. Rolls as a passenger during one trip, rising to a height from which he descended en vol plane. On Wednesday, Bouvier, accompanied by Mdlle. Dulrieux, left for a tour of Russia, having arranged to give exhibition flights in Odessa, Kiev, Moscow, and Warsaw. Gabriel to Become an Aviator. FINDING his old occupation more or less gone, Gabriel, the one-time driver of Mors racing cars, has betaken himself to Mour- melon, in order to familiarise himself with the Voisin biplane, with which he hopes to become as expert as he was with speedy cars. Efimoff at Nice. BEFORE packing up his biplane at Nice on the 26th ult., that prince of daring aviators, EfimofT, made several short flights with passengers, and among others he took the Princess Narischkine for a brief excursion into the central blue. Second Lanz Prize Won. ON the evening of the 29th ult., at Tohannisthal, Herr Behrend succeeded in covering a distance of i\ kiloms. in the form of a figure eight, and thus secured the second Lanz prize of 7,000 marks. An Austrian Flyer. AT Lemburg, on the 29th ult., Pierre Grand, on the aeroplane designed and built by engineer Moskowski, succeeded in flying for the second time a distance 01 10 kiloms., at a height of 80 metres, from which he landed with a gliding flight. He made his first flight on the 26th. Greene Biplane Flies. SOME very satisfactory tests were made' on April 1st, at Mineola, Long Island, with the Greene biplane, which is very similar to the Farman machine except that there are four panels between the main planes. At the first attempt the machine flew for a mile and a half from Mineola to the Parkway, and later a circular flight of 2 miles was carried out. Then Dr. Greene gave his place to the purchaser, Mr. R. W. Crosby, who, after flying the machine for a mile and a half, had it packed up for transport to San Francisco. The Tours Meeting. A FLYING meeting commenced at Tours on Saturday last. Duray was the first in the air, but he only flew a short distance, and the honours of the day rested with Capt. Dickson and his Henry Farman machine, which covered 16 kiloms. in 17 mins. 471 sees. Kuller, on an Antoinette, was also up for a distance of 10 kiloms., and Chavez, on a Henry Farman, just under four kiloms. On Sunday the strong winds did not permit much sport, but Capt. Dickson managed to get 32 kiloms. to his credit, good flights also being made by Metrot, on his Voisin, Kuller and Chavez. Kuller secured the speed prize by covering 4 kiloms. in 3 mins. 58^ sees. Although the wind moderated on Monday, it was succeeded by a steady downpour of rain, but, in spite of this, six aviators were in the air. Capt. Dickson made the best performance of the day by flying 45 74 kiloms., while Metrot was second with 33 74 kiloms. Molon, on a Bleriot, made several flights, the longest of 14 kiloms., and during the day covered in all 52 kiloms. The speed prize was won by Duray, who was timed over the 4 kiloms. in 3 mins. 49I sees. Boy Scouts and Balloon Despatches. A SERIES of experiments were made on Saturday by the Aerial League and the Scouts' Association, with a view to testing the value of boy scouts as despatch runners and for signalling to balloons. Two balloons, piloted by the Hon. C. S. Rolls and Major Baden- Powell, and carrying officials of the Aerial League, ascended from Battersea gasworks at 3 o'clock. From time to time various despatches were dropped overboard, and these had to be delivered at the Aerial League headquarters. Up to the time of closing the headquarters on Saturday night over twenty messages had been sent in, and the bronze medal for the first one home went to Sergeant Sydney Mastin, of Beckenham, while the special medal for general smartness for dealing with a despatch was secured by Corporal Woollacott, of Wandsworth. The balloon "Conti nental," piloted by Major Baden-Powell, descended at Tonbridge, in Kent, while the balloon, in charge of the Hon. C. S. Rolls, came down about a mile further away. Petrol from Sarawak. AVIATORS and motorists who may have had any qualms as to the supply of petrol running out, will be re-assured on hearing that the British Petroleum Co., the owners of the famous " Shell " fuel, have just discovered unlimited supplies of oil in Sarawak, British North Borneo. Since Sir Marcus Samuel first introduced the policy of transporting petroleum in bulk, and developed the oil fields of Borneo, his firm have gone steadily forward, and this new discovery should further add to their magnificent prosperity. Models at South Kensington. A NOTABLE addition to the exhibits in the Southern Gallery at the Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington, is a one-tenth scale model of the cross-Channel Bleriot monoplane made by Messrs. T. W. K. Clarke and Co. to the order of the Museum authorities. This model is exact in almost every detail, and the working drawings for it were approved by M. Louis Bleriot himself. Alvaston Motors in London. WITH reference to the description in our last issue of the Alvaston flight motors, we learn from the Aeroplane Supply Co., who are the London agents, that they have duplicates of this engine, fitted with Asco propellers, on view at their Piccadilly showrooms. The new German military dirigible, "M3" (Gross-Basenach system). 357
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