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[fi]GHf] s^inRSNE HliW I p& t 'a w&h&L. Saint-Germain, as seen from a balloon at a height of 200 metres. JULY 9, 1910. Bracciano, a distance of 22 miles in 31 minutes. He landed near the airship shed there, and will fly back at the first opportunity. During the trip he reached a height of 3,000 ft. Italian Army Gets £1,000,000 Grant for Aviation. A REMARKABLE scene was witnessed in the Italian Chamber of Deputies last Saturday week, when a sum of 25,000,000 lire (about £1,000,000) was voted for aviation in the extraordinary estimates of the Ministry of War. This money will be ex pended in the construction and maintenance of aeroplanes and dirigible balloons. A Flying School in Italy. IN a few days a flying school will be opened in the well-known plain of Pordenone, in the north east of Italy. It will be managed by Messrs. Jacchia and Cavicchioni, who have been studying aviation in France for some time, and who are arranging to give lessons on Henry Farman and Bldriot machines. It is hoped by this means to have an array of local talent ready for the Milan meeting in September. The new flying ground is under the patronage of the Societa haliana di Aviazione, the Italian repre sentatives in the F.A.I. Sommer Moves to Rheims. BY the aid of several motor lurries M. Sommer was last week •enabled to transfer a number of his machines from Douai to Betheney, near Rheims, where he is now establishing his head quarters. He has recently been testing a new model, which has proved to be very fast. Harding at Amberieu. MR. HARDING has been making good progress w:'th his J. A. P. monoplane at Amberieu lately, and on the 1st executed two flights, one of 5 and the other of 15 kiloms. length, the altitude being about 10 metres. The Zenith School at Issy. ON the 1st inst., several of the pupils at the Zenith School at Issy made good flights, the best being of ten minutes' duration by Lecointe. Two New French Meetings. ARRANGEMENTS are being made for a meeting to be held at Caen from the 28th inst. to August 2nd, at which about 100,000 frs. will be offered in prizes. Among the events will be one for military aviators, for which the sanction of the Army authorities has been obtained ; and a town to town race, in which competitors will go from Caen to a town about 25 kiloms. away, alight there, and later fly back to Caen. The second meeting is to be held at Nantes, from August 14th to 21st, and the prize-money totals to 60,000 frs. International Conference on Aerial Navigation. AFTER a sitting which has lasted several months the International Conference on Aerial Navigation has suspended its work until Novem ber 27th, in order to allow the delegates to fulfil other engagements. It is stated to be practically certain that it will be possible for a scheme to be drawn up by the conference for regulating aerial traffic. A Flying Week for Essen. HAVING obtained 50,006 marks of the sum voted by the Reichstag for the encouragement of aviation, the town of Essen has decided to hold a flying week at the beginning of August. Cross-Country Flying in Italy. AFTER only a few lessons at Mourmelon, Lieut. Savoia showed that he could master the Henry Farman machine, and took one back to Italy. On Wednesday of last week he made a cross-country trip of 40 miles from Centocelle and back, while on the following day he flew from Centocelle to To Fly by Night at Milan. IN order that the flying at the Milan meeting, to take place from September 25th to October 3rd, may not be curtailed by the darkness, arrangements are being made for the installation of a large number of electric arc lamps. These will illuminate the course, and allow the flying to be continued indefinitely. The prize fund amounts to about £ 12,000. Cross Country Flying in Australia. THE great cross-country feats accomplished in Great Britain and America have stirred up our Australian cousins, and the Aerial League of Australia is now endeavouring to arrange for a flying contest from Sydney to Melbourne. What is wanted now, they point out, is a big prize, but there appears to be considerable difficulty in finding a public-spirited donor in the land of the Southern Cross. Flying Over Montreal. M. JACQUES DE LESSEPS, who has been making some splendid flights at the flying meeting at Montreal last week, on Monday left the flying ground on his Bleriot, and during a 49-minute trip circled over the city for some time. During the time he was aloft, mostly at a height of 2,000 ft., he covered about thirty miles. On Thursday of last week, Brookins on the Wright Both the Grand Duke and the Grand Duchess Augusta of Austria at Budapest Meeting were taken for flights by Adolf Warchalowski on his biplane. In our picture a general view of the Royal passenger is seen prior to the start. 530
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