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JULY I6, 1910. L/QGHS 90 kiloms., his speed being almost exactly 80 kiloms. an hour. N. Kinet, Fischer and Efimoff on Henry Farman machines all made lengthy flights, as did Legagneux on his Sommer, and Wagner on the Hanriot. The records broken were :— Distance Records. Distance. Time. 5 kils. 10 „ 20 ,, 30 „ 40 „ 50 „ 60 „ 20 kils. 40 „ 80 „ h. m. s. 0 3 J4§ 0 6 36 0 13 8 0 22 31 0 30 11 0 37 5°f 0 45 28| hrs. i \ 1 Pilot. ! Distance. Morane i 70 kils. Morane j 80 ,, Morane 9° ,> Olieslaegers 100 „ Olieslaegers 150 ,, Leblanc i 200 ,, Leblanc ! 250 „ Time Records. Leblanc 145 '250 Leblanc 215 kils Leblanc Time. h. m. s. 0 53 32* I 2 22f 1 " !5f I l6 II 2 3 49i 2 46 2 3 34 53s hrs. kils. 2 3 Pilot. Leblanc Leblanc Leblanc Leblanc Olieslaegers Latham Olieslaegers Olieslaegers Latham. On Friday the doings at the Betheny aerodrome were to some extent overshadowed by the accident to Baroness de la Roche. She was flying at a good height when her biplane dropped like a stone to the ground. She was very badly injured, and it was at first feared that she would not recover, but the latest reports are more favourable. As to the cause of the accident that is at present unexplained. The Baroness attributed it to someone flying over her too closely, and there was a hostile demonstration against Lindpaintner. He was, however, exonerated by the Committee. The day's competi tion was for the longest distance prize. Latham was one of the first to start, and he was followed by Olieslaegers. The latter eventually made the best performance, covering 225 kiloms. in 2h. 55m- 5is-> while Latham completed 160 kiloms. in 2h. 9m. 3|s. In point of distance, however, Cattaneo took second place with his Bleriot, by cover ing 180 kiloms. Other good performances were Labouchere (125 kiloms.), N. Kinet (no kiloms.), Lindpaintner (90 kiloms.), Legagneux (90 kiloms.). In the course of his long flight Olieslaegers reduced the time for 150 kiloms. to ih. 54m. 54fs., and for 200 kiloms. to 2h. 35m. 18s. In the competition for the daily speed prize Morane reduced the ten mile record to 6m. 35£s., and Leblanc, later, reduced it still further to 6m. 33§s., while he covered 5 kiloms. in 3m. 12s. Saturday saw the duration, distance, and passenger records beaten ; the former by Labouchere and the latter by Aubrun and Mamet on their Bleriot. The Antoinette pilot in his long flight which lasted 4 hrs. 37 mins. covered 340 kiloms. In the passenger competition Aubrun carried a passenger for 2h. 9m. 7fs., during which time he traversed 137*125 kiloms., while Mamet took up two passengers besides himself for 9275 kiloms. The record for ten kiloms. with one passenger fell to Ladougne who, on the The Baronne de Laroche, whose unfortunate accident on her Voisin somewhat marred last Friday's doings at the Rheims Meeting.—Latest accounts report the Baroness as out of danger. Goupy biplane, covered the distance in 8 mins. I4f sees, The times for the various distances were as follows :— Aubrun 1 pass. Mamet 2 pass. Aubrun 10 kils. 20 ,, 30 „ 40 „ 50 „ 1 pass. Mamet 2 pass, h. m. s. h. m. s. — 0 10 184 0 19 39* 0 21 14 0 29 10 0 31 53J 0 38 51 0 42 32I 0 48 28 0 52 36* A 60 7o 80 90 100 m. s. 57 58* 7 31* 16 59! 26 33 36 6 h. m. s. I 3 2of 1 14 36! 1 23 33 1 36 4 — Mr. Henry Farman's biplane, as fitted with a 100<h.p. Gnome Rheims Meeting last week. engine, at For the daily height prize Morane reached a height of 741 metres, while de Baeder went up to 299, Nieuport to 226 metres. For the distance com petition, the longest flights apart from Labouchere's were Tetard (185 kiloms.), Cattaneo (150 kiloms.), Weyman 140 kiloms.). Sunday was the last day, and the programme opened with the final for the speed prize. The seven competitors were started off at minute intervals, Morane being the first to leave the mark. He put up the best performance, covering the 20 kiloms. in 12 mins. 49^ sees. Three Blfcriots qualified for the final, of which the result was : Morane, 12 mins. 45$ sees, (world's record) ; Leblanc, 12 mins. 55-i sees. ; Olieslaegers, 13 mins. 15 sees. After that the principal event of the day was the cross country flight for the Ephrussi Cup in which the competitors started three at a time. They had to travel round a steeple at Vitry le Rheims, thence round a factory chimney at Bayancourt and back to the starting point. There were eight competitors, and the first one home was Wagner on his Hanriot, but he started earlier than Leblanc who was the winner, the latter's time being 19 mins. 17 sees. The other times will be found in our table. While the preparations for this contest were in progress, Olieslaegers launched his machine for pulling down the world's duration and distance records. He handsomely achieved his object by remaining aloft for 5I1. 3m. 5s., during which he covered 392 kiloms. (245 miles), although only 320 kiloms. counted for the distance prize, as the remainder was flown after the official closing time. 549
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