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1912 - 0064.PDF
FLYING AT OVER NINETY MILES AN HOUR. FOR some time the speed records have stood unattacked and, in fact, in view of the speed set up by the late Ed. Nieuport, it was hardly expected that they would be very much improved on for some time to come. Vedrines has, however, had his eye on them, and so have the Deperdussin folk, and the scanty reports which leaked out at Pau regarding the practice showed that the combina tion was likely to prove successful. And so it proved. With a machine of 7 metres span and 13 sq. metres surface, fitted with a ioo-h.p. Gnome engine and a "Rapid" propeller of 2*5 metres diameter and 2-i metres pitch, Vedrines made a successful attack on Saturday last. A course of 5 kiloms. round had been laid out, and it was seen as soon as the timekeeper, M. Maurice Martin gave out the time for the first round, that Nieuport's old records were going to be well beaten. In the first 5 kiloms. Vedrines had knocked 2 sees, off the old record and he did even better in the next round, by the end of which he was 5 sees, to the good. The following table shows both the new and old records for 5 kiloms. to 150 kiloms., and also from a \ of an hour to I hour. His highest speed reported was 145-177 kiloms. per hour, a speed of just over 90 miles an hour as against Nieuport's 82^ miles an hour. This latest success of Vedrines added to the many others which have been won by the Deperdussin firm during the year is another testimony to the splendid design and excellent work of these craft. ® ® AUSTRALIA'S A FEW particulars are just to hand of the fine cross-country flight made by Mr. W. E. Hart on November 18th from Penrith to Sydney. Mr. Hart is the first Australian to go through the tests in his native land necessary to qualify for a certificate of the Aero Club, the tests being observed by Lieut. Taylor, Major Rosenthal, Captain Stowe and Captain Vernon of the Aerial League of Australia. They were made at Penrith on a Bristol biplane, and during the last test Mr. Hart carried as passenger Master Rosenthal. On his first circular flight Mr. Hart took his brother for a trip to their home at Parramatta covering the distance of nineteen miles in as many minutes. In the flight from Penrith to Sydney, Mr. Hart covered the 47 miles in 55 minutes, and rose to a height of 6,000 ft. The landing was a difficult one, as, apart from the fact that the Royal Agricultural Society's show ground is small, the approach to it was impeded by flag-poles and scoring-boards. Cleverly dodging these, however, and veritably "jumping" over the scoring-board, Mr. Hart landed safely. Three days later the aviator again took the air, and after a flight over the suburbs of Sydney, made another successful descent into the grounds. Mr. Hart has arranged to fly from Sydney to Melbourne if the assistance of the intervening towns can be obtained, and it is hoped the Govern ment will take up the subject. Exhibition flights will also probably be given in Brisbane and Tasmania, after which schools will be opened in Speed Records by Distance. Vedrines. Nieuport. 5 kiloms. 10 „ 20 30 40 5o 100 150 j hour 1 » I ,. Speed h. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 m. s. 2 6f 4 *3f 8 26g 12 4o£ 16 53 24 .4 41 56t ... 2 43T Records by Time. 35 70 kiloms. „ 142-430 kils. ... h. 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 I m. s. 2 i8f 4 i8f 9 Hf 13 33* 18 3'* 23 10 46 27I 13 35 Leblanc. 30 00 kiloms. 1! Nieuport. 129 kiloms. ® New record, Vedrines Old record, Nieuport ® Highest Speed. 145-177 k.p.h. (92 m.p.h.). 133-136 k.p.h. (824 m.p.h.). OWN AVIATOR. Sydney and Melbourne, the machine for the latter being built by Mr. Hart and his staff in Australia. W. E. Hart, the Australian aviator -who recently made a flight of 47 miles from Penrith to Sydney, accomplishing the distance in 55 mins. ® ® ® ® M. Dubonnet Beats the Balloon Record. •AT last Count de la Vaulx's balloon distance record of 1,935 kilometres which has stood since 1900, has been beaten and over practically the same course. The successful aeronauts were M. E. Dubonnet, the first exponent of the Tellier monoplane, and M. Dupont. The start was made from Lamotte-Breuil, on January 6th, shortly after midnight and when a storm was raging. After a voyage of 30 hours, the latter part of which was through showers . of blinding snow the aeronauts came down and found themselves about 11 versts to the east of Sokolowska, in the province of Kieff, and they had, therefore, broken the record by 50 kilometres. Naturally, the aeronauts had an exciting time during their voyage, and when crossing the Carpathians at a height of about 10,000 feet, the temperature was 12 degrees below zero. After passing Kieff in the distance, preparations were made for landing as the wind had practically dropped. M. Dubonnet pulled the ripping cord and in a few minutes the great balloon was lying on the frozen ground. In order to keep themselves warm the voyagers ran about for some time and then set off to try and find some human habitation. After tramping for nearly an hour in a haphazard way, as they had nothing to direct them, they came to a hut occupied by an old man, two children and a couple of ponies. The man, how ever, did not seem to know any language, but by signs the aeronauts learnt that they were about 12 versts from a railway station. They slept on a table in the hut overnight and the next morning were taken by the old man in his sledge to Monastyristche where they were able to get a train for Warsaw. Every consideration was shown them at Warsaw, and with all possible speed they hastened home and were given a rousing welcome, on their arrival in Paris, by a deputation of members of the Aero Club of France. The balloon "Condor III" was abandoned after the instruments, &c, had been taken out; but Dubonnet hopes to re-visit his landing place in the spring. A Lengthy Balloon Voyage from Germany. GERMANY has also been responsible for a long balloon voyage, as some days ago Messrs. Beurmann and Otto Korn of the Saxony Aero Club set out from Dresden. At first they were driven in the direction of Roumania, but when near Breslau the wind changed and carried them eastwards across the Vistula near Cracow. Eventually the balloon come down near Chapino in the Province of Ekaterinoslav, about 1,600 kilometres (993 miles), which had been covered in about forty hours. They could have kept on for an hour or an hour and a half more, but feared they would have been carried to some out of the way spot. 64
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