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1911
1911 - 0380.PDF
JycHf] The European Circuit. EVERY effort is being made by The Standard to honour the aviators taking part in this great International event, during the period in which they will be in England. Details of the arrange ments will be published later, when they have been approved by the commission controlling the circuit, each country traversed being represented by two delegates and France by three. An important and very drastic rule is that any competitor arriving in a section between the hours of 9 p.m. and 3 a.m. will be timed officially as having arrived at 3 a.m. Right of entry is personal, and restricted to aviators who actually take part. Manufacturers may enter a certain number of aviators blank in advance, but before these hold good each must be signed by an aviator designated by the manu facturer and firm that the entry becomes personal to him in regard to all rights and duties attached thereto. The carrying of any photographic or cinematographic apparatus on the machine during the flight is forbidden. Entrants can only compete on machines on which, by June 15th next, tests necessary for the obtaining an F.A.I, aviator's certi ficate have been passed by some aviator. The actual competitor need not have actually obtained his certificate on the particular machine which he uses. Although the course will be marked out, the following of this strictly is not obligatory, so long as the landings at the haJts and sections indicated in the programme are made, these being obligatory. Paris to Pau by Aeroplane. ON Saturday morning, two aviators set out from Paris to fly to Pau, in an attempt to win the cup offered by the Aero Club of Beam. Bobba on a Goupy biplane started off from Juvisy, with the intention of going without a stop to Pau. He flew over to Issy for the official start, and was timed away from there at a quarter past seven. Orleans was passed at five minutes to nine, while at ten o'clock Tours had been left behind. Another hour passed, and the aviator, being then at Chatellerault, decided to come down. Unfortunately, the ground was much rougher than he anticipated, and the machine suffered so badly in the landing that it was impossible for Bobba to continue. At 20 minutes to I Vedrines set out from Issy on his Morane monoplane. At 2 o'clock he was over Orleans, and then finding the wind was very trying he decided to land when he reached Poitiers, after being in the air for 5 minutes over 3 hours. He remained there the night, and a large crowd assembled early the following morning to see him make a fresh start for Pau. He was away at a quarter to seven, and all went well until Eglisottes, 28 kils. from Libourne, was reached, where a stop was necessary owing to a sparking plug giving out. He landed at 8 o'clock, and after a delay of 2f hours started off afresh, but only got to Mont Fourat, close APRIL 29, 1911. by Coutras, where another stop was necessary from the same cause. At half-past three in the afternoon he was under way once more and then got on as far as Captieux, where he determined to stop the night. The last 123 kiloms. were covered in 50 minutes. Although the weather on the following morning was unfavourable, the rain being very heavy, he determined to make an effort to complete his journey, and arrived at the aerodrome at Pau at five minutes to seven. His net time for the complete journey of about 800 kiloms. was 6 hrs. 18 mins., and during the major portion of the journey his speed was in the neighbourhood of 125 k.p.h. During the last section, however, he only averaged 70 k.p.h. Tests With the Etrich Monoplane. SOME interesting tests were made recently with an Etrich monoplane, built for the Austrian Army. The machine was first of all flown with a passenger on board for 2 hrs. 33 mins. while the wind was blowing at a rate of 4 to $ metres a second. Afterwards the machine was dismantled, an operation which occupied 8 mins., while in 25 mins. the machine was once more ready for flight, and, in fact, was taken for a trial. The specification under which the machine was built stipulated that it could be dismantled in one hour and be again ready for flying within two hours. Herr Illner has also demonstrated the controllability of the Etrich monoplane by flying in small circles, during some of which the planes were at an angle of 30 to 35 degrees to the horizontal, while as a conclusion the aviator took his hands from the steering wheel and let the machine proceed on its way some distance of its own accord. The machine in question is seen in our photograph on this page. ® ® ® ® " Parseval VI" Comes to Grief. ASCENDING at Johannisthal early in the morning on the 21st inst., with ten persons on board, the dirigible " Parseval VI " started off on a journey to Amsterdam, among the passengers being two Dutch military officers. It had been intended to start on the previous day, but the wind was too strong, and, even when the start was decided upon, the breeze was much more than was desirable. After a journey of about eight hours, during which 160 miles had been covered, the airship was in the neighbourhood of Hanover when a descent was rendered necessary in order to adjust the motor. In the landing operations, some of the tackle became entangled in a tree, and, in order to prevent any worse happening, the Commander, Lieut. Stelling, pulled the ripping cord, and brought the airship down with a rush. Fortunately, all the passengers were landed safely, and the airship was packed up and returned to Bitterfeld by rail for repairs. Latest model of the Etrich Monoplane, which has just been acquired by the Austrian Army.—These machines are constructed by the Motor-Luftfahrzeug-Gesellschaft of Hutteldorferstrasse, Vienna. In our photograph Oberlieutenant Miller, who has charge of the machine, is in the pilot's seat; in front the Army delegates, Rittmeister Schmidl, Captain von Petroczy, First Lieutenant Blaschke, First Lieutenant Stohanzl, the Managing Directors of the Motor- Luftfahrzeug-Gesellschaft, Kommerzialrat Castiglioni, Director of the Austro-American India-Rubber Manufacturing Co., Ltd., of Vienna, and Director Fischer of the Oesterreichische Daimler Motoren A.G.; and next to the propeller Mr. Illner, the Etrich pilot. 382
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