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APRIL 8, 1911. Bathiat "Wins a Prize. ON Monday Bathiat on his Somraer monoplane succeeded in winning the " Prix du Plus Grand Vent " offered by M. A. Combe through the L.N.A. During a flight of five minutes the wind was observed to be blowing at a minimum of ten metres and a maximum of fifteen metres per second. The aviator was required to complete a kilometre course in the form of a figure eight, and although the wind made the performance a very trying one, he was successful in accomplishing it. The Paris-Madrid Race. FURTHER details have now been published regarding the proposal to organise an aeroplane race between the French and Spanish capitals, and the dates have been decided upon. The competitors are to fly over the first stage from Pans to Bordeaux on May 21st ; they will continue on the second stage to San Sebastian or Vittoria on Mav 23rd. and complete the journey to Madrid on May 25th. The intervening days, May 22nd and 24th, are to be " rest " days. Austrian Passenger Record Beaten. ON Monday, Herr Illner on his Etrich monoplane succeeded in beating the Austrian passenger record. Taking Herr Amau as a f/jjGHT] passenger he travelled round and round a circular course for 2 hre. 33 mins., covering in that time about 150 kiloms. From Belgium to Germany. LEAVING the Kiewit aerodrome in Belgium on Monday, . Lescarts, accompanied by M. Benselin, succeeded in flying to ix-la-Chapelle. Kiewit was left at 5 o'clock, and passing over F Aix' Maestricht and Limbourg ihe aviators came down at 'v'aals on the German froniier. They restarted almost immediately, and reaching Aix-la-Chapelle flew over the town, and landed on the old horse race course of Braderheid at 6.35. The distance covered was about 90 kiloms. Cross-Country Flying in Havana. USING his Bleriot monoplane, the French aviator Barrier on the 28th ult. succeeded in beating the time of the American aviator McCurdy for the cross-country flight from Columbia Camp to the Chateau Morro and back for a prize of /600 offered by the town of Havana. Barrier's time was 15 mins. 2if sees., while McCurdy's time was 15 mins. 513 sees. Garros has also been visiting Havana, and after taking several passengers for trips on the 28th he fell from a height of 20 metres, but fortunately escaped with slight injuries onlyi APRIL WEATHER, AS By T. F. WITH April the flying year may be said to begin, in so far as it is dependent on the major weather phenomena. The improvement over March is very great in every respect, except hailstorms and thunderstorms, but the latter are so rare as to be of very little consequence. Gales decrease to one half of the average number occurring in March. At the beginning of the month, however, they are still rather frequent, but towards the end of the second week they begin to diminish in frequency, and the last week of April, taking an average of a hundred years, is one of the least stormy weeks in the year. From the accompanying table it may be seen that while thirty gales are recorded for the first five days of April, only nine occurred during the last five days. But unfortunately we must expect greater frequency of east and north-east winds than even in March, and, although storms decrease, there are fewer dead calm days in April than in any other month of the year. April, June, and May are, in order, the three months with the least number of calm days. Fogs, also, show a great reduction in number, and dense fogs in particular become exceedingly rare. Snowfalls average little more than one-third of those in March, and by the last week they very nearly approach a total disappear ance. Though not very much worse than March, April is the worst month for hailstorms. In these two months nearly one-half of all the hailstorms of the year are registered. As to rainfall, April has the third smallest amount, coming after February and March. This is at Greenwich, and taking the average of many years. In the matter of rainy days (that is days on which one-tenth of an inch, or more, is registered), April, contrary to the general belief, is the second best month of the year. Thunder is still infrequent, but at the end of April it begins to make some headway towards the July maximum. The improvement of the weather in this month compared with March may be best realised by setting the records side by side. The number of events are the average number occurring during a period of ten years:— March. April. Ten years'gales ,, snowfalls ... ,» fogs ,, dense fogs ,, hailstorms ,, thunderstorms Hours of sunshine during the month (at Greenwich) Rainy davs in the month With the increase of sunshine comes a considerable improvement in the matter of cloud. April averages only 8| extremely cloudy days, against io£ in March, wnile it has nearly 5 days of little or no cloud compared with 3! in March. Another of the regularly recurring cold periods is due on April 11 th or izth, and it should last till the 14th or 15th. SHOWN BY A CENTURY'S MANNING. 23 32 27 4 13 2 106 13 12 12 IS I* 15 7 149 12 RECORDS. As in previous articles a table of daily weather events for a period of one hundred years is appended. This, it may be repeated, is the proportion of events for a hundred years calculated from actual records, for a longer period in the case of some of the phenomena, and for a slightly shorter period in the case of others. The odds against any event occurring on a given day are as I0O to the figure in the table ; that is, of course, if this year's weather resembles the average. A comparison of the last with the fiist week shows the great improvement taking place in April:— Dense Day. Gales. Fogs. Fogs. Snow falls. 8 7 S 3 Hail. Thunder. 1st week .. 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 2nd week .. is 16 17 18 19 20 21 3rd week .. 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 4th week .. 39 4 4 2 7 2 2 5 26 3 7 4 4 2 4 5 29 1 4 • S • 5 4 2 2 • 3 • 25 47 4 6 2 1 2 8 1 8 2 6 1 34 3 4 1 5 1 6 4 5 1 5 7 36 — — 1 2 6 5 2 5 4 25 28 3 4 S 7 7 4 7 37 5 7 4 6 3 5 4 1 34 —-[ 2 1 I 4 2 2 t 2 I I \ 14 33 7 S S 6 10 3 2 38 3 4 6 3 6 5 1 28 5 6 8 2 7 6 6 40 14 2 2 3 3 4 2 1 17 2 3 2 3 4 1 - 15 — 2 4 I 4 3 2 3 19 321
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