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(/yaHr JULY 23, 1910. original type, was debarred from this contest unless he chose to fit wheels to his skids. This he did, but having started during the rush that took place within the last 15 mins. of the available time, he found the circle occupied by another machine when he wanted to alight there, and consequently the opportunity was lost. Thursday's performances included a few more attempts on the fastest lap. Morane (Bleriot monoplane) failed to improve on his previous speed of 56-64 m.p.h., but he gave a wonderful exhibition of flying during the early evening. His control of the Bleriot is magnificent, and his corner work at the mark towers is superb ; he is almost the only pilot who is able to make a straight run on the short side of the course at the hangar end. Everyone else makes a wide turn that carries them out towards the grand stands and enables them to round both mark towers at one sweep. Audemars, on his little " Demoiselle," improved his speed to45'62 m.p.h., but on the whole entertained the crowd less than on Wednesday. He does many amusing tricks with his tiny machine, such as pirouetting round on one wheel and bowing to the applause of the spectators by elevating the tail. And he flies well, remarkably well con sidering that such a machine cannot be easy to handle. It is never steady, but pitches along with a curious hurried sort of motion and with its tail in the air as if it were always running down hill. It is fast, and it gives an impression of speed, which eannot be said of the graceful Bleriots that glide in an effortless sort of way through the air. This makes it very difficult to appreciate that they are travelling so fast, especially if they are flying at any considerable altitude. The only striking evidence of their ' is the distance that they cover in a very short space of time. " Flight" Copyright. Louis Bleriot, who was a visitor at the Bournemouth Aerc- drome, takes a turn in the air on one of his monoplanes. Wagner (Hanriot monoplane) and Grace (Short biplane) also flew for speed, while Dickson and Grahame-White eaoh made two attempts GRAHAME-WH1TE ON A DISTANCE FLIGHT. "Flight" Copyright. -At rest is Capt. Dickson's Farman. One sees Morane or Drexel far away in the sky, and having perhaps turned aside for a moment to pass a remark to one's neighbour, one turns again to find the machine just about to alight on the ground. " Flight" Copyright. Cecil Grace, on his "Short" biplane, gets up for the Altitude Contest. at the slow prize without improving on the record that poor Rolls put up on Monday. The concluding incident of Thursday's proceeding was unhappily an accident to Rawlinson, who sustained severe injuries as the result of the chassis of his Farman biplane collapsing when he landed on rough ground. It was very hard lines that such a mishap should have been penalised so severely, and Rawlinson showed great pluck that day, for he must have suffered as much as any man could and still keep conscious. We wish him a speedy recovery, which, by the way, he is well on the way to already. Friday, Tuly 15th. The officials decided that the weight carrying competition should be finished by 3.30 this afternoon, but until 3 o'clock not a soul stirred from his shed except Morane, and he only ran the engine of his new passenger-carrying Bleriot monoplane prior to putting it back in the shed again. In this aeroplane—which, like his other model, appears to be a much better job than the earlier type—the passenger and the pilot sit side by side, and the seat is in the same position as it occupies on the one-man machine. The engine is a Gnome seven-cylinder rotary, and has an intermediate bearing between the cylinders and the propeller. The propeller itself is an exceptionally large Chauviere, and it is noticeable that for about one- third of the radius from the boss the blade has an elliptic section. For the rest of the radius the face is, of course, concave. About 3 o'clock Morane made a practice passenger flight, followed by Christiaens, who broke up his machine on the rough ground, and sustained such injuries that necessitated his removal 570
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