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1911
1911 - 0767.PDF
BOULOGNE TO FOLKESTONE AND BACK. IT is becoming a matter of just ordinary interest now to fly the Channel, therefore beyond quite a short paragraph here and there in the lay Press, little notice has been taken of Pourpe's week-end flight from Boulogne to Folkestone and back. For some time he has been wishing to try the trip, and, opportunity serving as soon as he had finished his engagements at Boulogne, without any shouting he made a dash for British soil. Flying at a height of about 500 metres, he crossed the Channel quite easily, but, owing to haze, made too easterly a course and arrived at Dover instead of Folke stone. He circled above the Castle, and then landed in the Barrack Square on the Western Heights. He had left Boulogne at 6.25 and landed at Dover at 7.5 in the evening. At 5.30 on the following morning, with the assistance of an officer of the Roya) Irish Rifles and Mr. Eric Snepp, of the Dover Aero Club, he restarted, and after making a circle above the cliffs at Dover, headed off in the direction of Folkestone, landing there on the Golf Links near Shorncliffe Station. He then visited Folkestone in order to deliver to the French Consul a letter in Esperanto he had brought from the Engineer of the Boulogne Harbour Board, the letter pointing out the advantages of this weird language for aviators. By 9.38, having returned to Shorncliffe, he was in the air again on his way back to Boulogne, following in the track of a steamer which had left Folkestone at 8.50, and landing on the East Sands at Boulogne at 10.10 a.m., a matter of 32 minutes for the 30 miles. ® ® ® ® IDEAS IN WIRE-STRAINERS. Two new ideas in wire-strainers are illustrated herewith, one devised by T. W. Clarke and Co. being the essence of simplicity the other end. The wire-strainer introduced by Gratz, Ltd., is somewhat more complicated. It consists of an aluminium pulley tv.v.o.mwmmyitmwinj' Ik A simple wire strainer made by T. W. Clarke and Co. and very ingenious. It is merely a small aluminium lever formed by a casting and having two pairs of bosses projecting at one end and an eye-hole provided at the other. The bosses engage with the wire to be strained as shown in the accompanying sketch, which also illustrates how the lever is fastened by a piece of wire attached to ® ® The Gratz wire strainer. carried in a steel frame. A hole is drilled through the pulley and the wire to be tightened is threaded through the frame and the pulley as shown in the sketch. The pulley is then tightened by a handle and the pulley is locked in position by means of a nut. ® ® HOLDING BACK A 100-H.P. BLfiRIOT MONOPLANE.-An "incident" Mr. Claude Grahame-White at Belmont Park Meeting, U.S.A., last year, to Gordon-Bennett International Trophy. 769 in secure the successful for Great attempt by Britain the
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