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1912 - 0425.PDF
FOREIGN AVIATION NEW The Pekin to Paris Race. THE regulations governing this event has now been approved by the Aero Club of France and issued. The event will be inter national as far as the pilots are concerned, but the machines must be built by a French house established in France before January lit, 1912. The race will be held if there are five entries before June*i6th, and these it is said are assured. The start will take place from Pekin on Septemper 1st, and the competitors will be required to pass the official controls on the following dates : Ourga, September 14th: Irkoutsk, September 21st ; Omsk, September 2Sth; Moscow, October 12th; Vienna, October 19th ; Genoa, October 25th ; Paris, November 1st. The prizes will be 100,000 frs., 25,000 frs., and three of 10,000 frs. each. Should no competitor complete the full distance the one travelling the farthest will receive a prize of 50,000 frs., provided Omsk has been passed. Various parts of the motor, planes, elevator and rudder will be stamped, and two at least of the marked parts must be in position at the finish. The landing chassis and the propeller will not be marked. •From Issy to Rheims on a Haoriot. ON the 2nd inst., Frey returned to Rheims on a Hanriot monoplane from Issy. The trip took 2 hours 7 mins., and Frey had to constantly vary his height between 1,500 and 1,800 metres in order to dodge the tog. Flying Under and Over a Bridge. AMONG a number of ^40 prizes offered two years ago by the Ligue Nationale Aerienne, was one known as the Claudel Prize, to be given to the first aviator who should succeed in flying over and then under the Corneille Suspension Bridge at Rouen. The feat was accomplished on Sunday afternoon by Cavelier on a Deperdussin monoplane. He started from the Bruyeres Aerodrome, flew over the bridge at a good height, and then turning swooped down and passed under it, afterwards returning to his starting point. Testing Miss Quimby's New Machine. ON Monday, at Etampes, Perreyon made three splendid test flights with passenger, with the new 70-h.p. Bleriot, which Miss Harriet tjuimby is taking back to the States. A 250 kilom. Trip on a Deperdussin. LIEIT. BRUNCHER on Monday flew on his Deperdussin from Mirecourt to Rheims, a distance of 250 kiloms. in 2 hours 27 minutes. Testtng a Batch of Bleriots. A DOZEN single-seater Bleriot monoplanes, ordered by a foreign army, were tested on Monday at Etampes by l'erreyon. In the altitude tests the machines attained a height of 1,300 metres in 17 mins. Another Peugeot Prize. YET another prize for a " flight " by human energy alone has been offered by the Peugeot firm. This time it takes the form of 1,000 francs for the first person who, on a bicycle transferred into a flying apparatus, succeeds in flying across two cords placed 1 metre apart and stretched at a height of 1 decimetre (4 ins.) above the ground. The feat must be accomplished once in each direction, and the total time taken for the two trials must not exceed 10 minutes. This makes 21,000 francs which 'have been offered by the Peugeot firm. They have previously offered 10,000 francs for a human flight of 10 metres, and another prize of similar value for the longest flight accomplished by muscular power alone. Fatal Accident to Count de Robillard Cosnac. AFTER being out and circling over Nice, his native city, nearly every day for some weeks on his monoplane, Count de Robillard Cosnac met his death on Sunday afternoon. As the result of an accident recently, the machine had been fitted with new wings, and the Count said he regretted he had not the old ones, but all the same the machine was in good flying order. He started off on Sunday afternoon with the intention of flying from the California ground to the Hanriot school at Antibes, and when nearing there the machine was seen to be tossed about by the wind and then finally to dive down sideways to the ground, apparently through a wing collapsing. Several motorists who were passing went to the assistance of the aviator, but he had apparently been killed instantly, and the machine was so damaged that it was impossible to really ascertain the cause of the accident. Long Flights on Farman Machines. ON his Henry Farman biplane the Greek officer Kamberos on ithe 3rd inst. flew from Etampes to Champxgne-sur-Seine and returned to Etampes on the following day. On his way back he passed over the Fontainebleau Forest at a height of 1,200 nifties. Also on Saturday, Chebillard on a racing H, Farman machine went from Etampes to Buc. On his M. Farman biplane on Sunday Lieut. Grezaud made his first test for a military certificate, over a course from St. Cyr to Chartres, Orleans, Etampes and luck. I ta Monday, at Buc, Lieut. Vogoyeau was flying on a Maurice Farman machine for an hour and a-half. Flying to the Poll. A 1 the beginning ol the week Monthier on his Borel machin flew over from Amberieu to liourg, where an election was in pro gress, in order to record his vote. Mourmelon to Villacoublay on a Nieuport, ON Saturday, Gobe on his Gnome-Xieuport machine made a splendid flight from Mourmelon to Villacoublay. Prince Henry of Prussia 1912 Aviation Prize, modelled by Karl Korschann. 425
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