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1911
1911 - 0118.PDF
ML M. Sommer with his five passengers on his Sommer biplane, with whom he ilew from Dcuzy to Romilly and back, as recorded in cur last issue. Sommer Carries Six Passengers. CONTINUING his experiments in passenger carrying M. Roger Sommer, immediately after succeeding in carrying six people on his biplane, as recorded in our last issue, added another passenger to the load, and made a successful trip with seven on board. The machine was one of his standard military type, fitted with a 50-h.p. Gnome motor. Flying Across Country in Company. FOUR of the French military aviators in training at Pau —Lieutenants Tricornot, De Rose, Malherbe and Conneau— set out from Pau on the 30th ult. mounted on their Bleriot monoplanes in a test for the special French Military Pilot Certificate. They flew to Puydo, 100 kiloms. away, and there turned at a height of 600 metres. Three of them Mr. Eugene Ely just alighting with his Curtiss biplane on the special landing stage erected on the U.S. warship '"Pennsylvania" at San Francisco. Note the bags of sand connected up to act as brakes in stopping the aeroplane when running up the stage. I20
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