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1911
1911 - 0035.PDF
JANUARY 14, 1911. JQGHT] A.C-F. and Aviation. AT the last meeting of the Committee of the Automobile Club of France MM. Ernest Archdeacon, Commandant Ferrus, Chevalier Rene de Knyff, Count de la Valette, Alfred Loreau, Rene Quinton, Ed. Surcouf, and Count Robert de Vogue, were elected to represent the Club on the Commission Sportive Aeronautique for 1911. The Commission Sportive Aeronautique. FOR 1911 the Commission Sportive Aeronautique (the Toint Committee of the French Aero and Automobile Clubs), will be composed of the above named delegates of the A.C.F., together with the following representatives of the Aero Club of France: MM. Leblanc, L. Barthou, G. Besancon, L. Bleriot, Count Castillon de Saint Victor, H. Deutsch' (de la Meurthe), Count H. de la Vaulx, and R. Soreau. In this new Committee, M. Leblanc and Commandant Ferrus take the place of M. Balsan and the Marquis de Dion, who have resigned. The officials will be President, M. Barthou ; Vice-President, M. A. Loreau ; Secretary, M. E. Surcouf; Treasuier, M. Deutsch. Amerigo tries for the Michelin Cup. APART from the attempts which we chronicled last week as having been made in France on the last day of the old year for the International Michelin Cup, an attempt was also made in Germany at Mulhouse. Amerigo, on his Aviatik machine, determined to try and win the cup, but after he had been in lhe air for 3 hrs. 7 mins., and covered about 200 kiloms., he was obliged to descend owing to a violent storm of snow, making it impossible to continue. This Year's Michelin Cup Rules. IN view of the way in which the record for the Michelin Cup has advanced year by year, it is not improbable that an attempt will be made to have the rules altered for this year, the idea being that the record should be made across country. Up till now the prize has been awarded for the longest distance flown in a closed circuit, the winners being, 1908, Wilbur Wright, 124 kiloms. ; 1909, Henry Farman, 234 kiloms. ; 1910, Maurice Tabuteau, 584 kiloms. A Collision at Issy. AN incident was witnessed at Issy on Sunday morning when a machine, piloted by a novice, charged into another one piloted by M. Cei, just as the latter was landing after a lengthy flight. With the exception of a sprained wrist, sustained by M. Cei, the aviators escaped without injury, but both their machines were bidly smashed. Flying to the Meet. As a digression from the humdrum life of an aeroplane instruc tor, Bregi, on Sunday morning, flew on his Voisin biplane from Pau to the venue of a meet of the local foxhounds. He circled above the assembled huntsmen but did not land, veeriDg off in the direction of Pau, and after passing over the town, returned to the aerodrome. Legagneux at Nice. AMONG the attractions at Nice during the next few weeks must be included Legagneux, who in addition to a number of other aviators, has arranged to give a series of exhibition flights, and also to make passenger trips. He will use a Kleriot monoplane and also the Henry Farman machine on which he twice attempted to fly from Paris to Brussels and back. SPEED 190S •• 1909 BL^RIOT ALE6LANC 67-5 „.„.!, 1909. I9I0I H. FARMAN 4-lj. !7'55y H. FARMAr- 8 h. 12' ETAMPES DISTANCE 1906 1 1909 i 1910 HEIGHT 1908 . 1909 — HOXSEY •M_w»aaaHWMaMB 11.156 ft. LONG ISLAN THREE YEARS' PROGRESS IN SPEED, DURATION, D STANCE, AND HEIGHT.-The above diagram graphic ally shows the remarkable record advances made in the short space of three years in aviation. It must naturally ease off now with such limits reached as the above, whilst more attention and study will without doubt be given to the per fecting of details and strengthening the parts of machines which have to bear the greatest strains. At the Goupy School. BOUVIER, who has met with considerable success as a pilot ot Sommer machines, visited Juvisy on Friday of last week, and at his FLIGHT. Kaufmann monoplane, type "Demoiselle," which is being successfully flown at Issy. 35
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