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1911
1911 - 0641.PDF
JULY 22, 1911. The Belgian Circuit. IT has now been decided that Liege shall be omitted from the course for this event, and the daily stages starting from Brussels will therefore terminate at Mon»casteau, Tournai, Blanken- berghe, Antwerp, and back to Brussels. The first prize has been fixed at ^800. Lieut. Bier has a Ducking. WHILE trying to fly on his Etrich machine from Abbazia to the Island of Veglia, in the Adriatic, for a prize of .£250, the Austrian aviator, Lieut. Bier, who is entered for the Daily Mail prize, had an unpleasant experience. The machine was caught by the wind, and in order to avoid an accident Lieut. Bier came down on the surface of the sea, where he was tossed about by the waves until rescued by a torpedo boat. Aviation in Japan. MR. J. C. MARS, the American aviator whose death is just announced from America, was the first airman to give really successful exhibitions of flying in Japan. His first Japanese ascent was made from the Naruo racecourse near Kobe, and he later gave exhibitions of his skill at Tokyo, Kyoto and Nagoya, before enormous crowds of appreciative spectators, including huge contingents of school children. His demonstration of the ease with which targets may be hit by imitation bombs thrown from an aeroplane in flight greatly in terested the general public, half of whom have had practical experience of warfare under trying modern conditions, and are quick to realise new military possibilities. The exhibition no doubt gave a fillip to the national ambition to possess a Japanese air fleet as efficient in its way as the famous Navy. A nucleus already exists in the Military Aviation Committee, with its flying men— of whom Capts. Hino and Saigo, who learned to fly in France last year, are the best known—and its excellent Farman and Wright biplanes. [/TIGHT] AVIATION IN JAPAN.— I he audiences were as interesting to Mr. Mars during his aviation tour in Japan as his flying was interesting to them. In our photograph Mr. Mars is seen "snapping" a crowd at_one of his flight exhibition meetings. ,s.> Mr. Mars had the honour of taking up the first lady passenger to fly in Japan, this lady, Mrs. Manwaring, making her flight nonchalantly seated on one of the planes. Our photographs were taken during Mr. Mars' visit toNagoya. > AVIATION IN JAPAN.—A back view of a Japanese audience at an aviation meeting at Nagoya when the late- Mr. Mars was flying. 643
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