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determined to start on Friday afternoon last. After a run on his car to the top of the Pass, he started from Brigue at half past one, and eighteen minutes later had successfully passed the highest point of the Simplon Pass, while after he had been in the air about ten minutes under the hour he was at Domo d'Ossola, thirty-five miles from his starting point. He then decided to come down, and made a splendid and awe-inspiring gliding flight to within a short distance of the ground. Then the machine appears to have capsized and crashed to the ground, burying the aviator beneath it. He sustained very Domo d'Ossola Plain, where Chavez descended with such unhappy results to himself. severe injuries, including fractures of both legs, but it was confi dently hoped that he would pull through. Good progress was made at first, but on Tuesday it was seen that the nervous shock had been too much, and the aviator gradually sank, passing away during the afternoon. Although he only obtained his pilot's certificate last February, Chavez had had a distinguished career, and at several of the French meetings he had made notable performances on a Henry Farman machine. On the last day of the Rheims meeting he suddenly appeared on a BleViot monoplane, and three weeks ago he successfully attacked the height record at Issy, carrying it to 2,680 metres. He used a Bleriot machine during his Trans-Alpine flight. Just previous to the start of Chavez's flight Weymann made a ® ® FOREIGN AV Things they do better in France. AN example of the different way in which aviation is looked upon in official quarters in France, as compared with our own country, is furnished by a series of official announcements regarding promotions and honours accorded to the French military aviators for '' exceptional services rendered to military aviation or aeronautics " in connection with the recently concluded manoeuvres. Lieuts. Sido and Neant are both promoted to Captains, and Lieuts. Bellenger and Jost will be similarly advanced at the earliest opportunity. Capts. Bois and Marie and Lieut. Caumont La Force, of the active army, and "Corporal" Breguet and "Sapper" Latham, of the reserves, are to be made Chevaliers of the Legion of Honour. The military medal has been given to Engineer-Adjutants Menard and Legros, two of the dirigible mecaniciens. Doings at Juvisy. DURING the past week three machines have been undergoing trials. Godard, on his modified Voisin, on Thursday last week carried a passenger for 45 mins., but kept within a height of about 40 metres from the ground. A monoplane of the Santos Dumont type has been tried by Denhaut, while Masleinckoff is making good progress with his Farman. Military Flyers at Buc. Two good flights were made by military pupils at the Maurice Farman School at Buc on Friday last week. Lieut. Berda was up for one hour and a quarter, while Lieut, Cheutin was flying for three quarters of an hour. A Russian Colony at Mourmelon. THERE has been quite a colony of Russian pupils at Mour- melon lately, the greater number being at the Antoinette school. Col. Zelinsky has been joined there by Lieut. Komaroff, and Chioni and Makowestsky of the Aero Club of Odessa. Kauzminsky, who OCTOBER I, 1910. ACROSS THE SIMPLON.*PASS. —View of Simplon village, over which Chavez passed on his flight across the Alps. trial, but after reaching a height of 1,000 metres he descended again, and expressed the opinion that any attempt should be post poned till next year. On the preceding days various trial flights had been carried out from Brigue by Chavez, Weymann and Taddeoli. ® ® has been learning on a Bleriot, and Efimoff, the Farman pilot, left last week to take part in the St. Petersburg meeting. The Tellier School at Etampes. THERE should soon be a large number of fully qualified Tellier pilots, as during the past week the training at Etampes has been pursued with great success, and without untoward incident. The pupils Salvay, Hammersley, Dunne, de Silva, Santoni and Becue have all made good progress, the last-mentioned especially. On Monday, for his fourth solo flight, after a circuit of the ground, he carried out a wide sweep over the surrounding country, landing afterwards in masterly fashion. The Train Monoplane at Mourmelon, ON Monday Train, on the monoplane of his own design, and fitted with a S-cyl. Anzani, flew* for fifty minutes at a height of 200 metres at Chalons Camp. Cross-Country Flying in France. APART from the attempts in the race from Paris to Brussels, a number of fine cross-country trips have been executed last week. On Tuesday of last week Loridan, on his Henry Farman machine, left Chalons with the intention of reaching Issy. The wind, how ever, was very strong, and he was compelled to descend at Mont- mort. After a rest he restarted and got to Montmirail, where he made another landing. From there he started off once more, and made his last stop for the day at Romilly. Early the next morning he was out, and easily completed the remaining stage of the journey to Issy. On Wednesday last week Lieut. Bellenger arrived at Vincennes on his Bleriot monoplane, having flown over from Briot, covering the 130 kiloms. in an hour and a half. On Friday Gibert successfully made the journey in his aeroplane from Beau Desert (Bordeaux) to Royan, making two stops in the course of his 156 kilom. trip. On Sunday he won the Lehmann prize of 1,000 francs by flying from Royan to Lezerfon and back in 13 mins, 13 sees. 806
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