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1912 - 0734.PDF
(/iJGHT AUGUST IO, 1912. Long Flights at R.E.P. School. FOR the first test for his superior brevet, Lieut. Bruguiere on Saturday last flew from Buc to Troyes and back, his R.E.P. machine averaging a speed of 105 kiloms. an hour. Lieut. Campagne and Granel each made flights of two hours' duration on the same day. On Monday Granel was flying for two hours at a height of 1,000 metres and went to Chartres and back. Molla was meanwhile flying over Buc, Chateaufort, Versailles and the neighbourhood. Etampes to Sissonnes in 1 hr. 40 mins. RETURNING to their headquarters on the 2nd inst., Sergeant Perretti and Sapper Letort, each on a two-seater, side by side, Bleriot, went from Etampes to Sissonnes Camp, a distance of 210 kiloms., in I hr. 40 mins. A New French Aviatress. MADAME PALLIER qualified or her Ae.C.F. pilot's certificate in somewhat sensational style at Villacoublay on Saturday last. She started off on her Astra biplane, but instead of keeping over the aerodrome, surprised her observers by flying off in the direction of Paris. She circled round the Eiffel Tower and over the Chamber of Deputies, and then returned to Villacoublay to complete the tests. Long Reconnaissances at Pau. FROM the military Bleriot school at Pau Sergeant Laurent made several long reconnoitring flights last week. On the 30th ult., taking Lieut. Armengaud as observer, he was up for two hours watching the operations of the artillery of the Tarbes garrison. The pair made a lengthy scouting trip along the Orthez valley on the 31st, and the next day they were up again for a couple of hours. French Army and Automatic Warping. UNDER the control of Commandant Renaud, chief of the French military aeronautic laboratory at Chalais-Meudon, tests have recently been made with the Baligout automatic warping system, and it is said to have given satisfaction. A Round Trip on a Nieuport. SAPPER MARMIER and Levasseuron the 1st inst. on a Nieuport monoplane went over a circuit Mourmelon-Rheims-Epernay and back, taking an hour and a half for the round trip. A Silent Astra Biplane. TESTS were carried out at Villacoublay on the 1st inst. with a silencer which it is proposed to fit to the motors of Astra machines. With Labouret in charge the test machine was flown at a height of 100 metres when practically no noise could be heard from the motor by the observers on the ground. New Deperdussin Superior Pilots. FOUR, more French officers and two non-commissioned officers are qualifying for superior brevets at the Deperdussin school at Betheney. On Sunday Capt. Estirae, Lieut. Degorge and sous- officiers Verdie and Chauroux made flights of an hour and a half at a height of 500 metres, and Lieut. Rabisson, for his first event for superior brevet, went over the course Rheims, Vouziers, Mailly Camp and back to Rheims. Lieut. Mortureux completed his tests by flying back from Amiens. Dictatophones for Aeroplanes. IT is stated from Paris that experiments are to be conducted with a view to ascertaining whether it will be possible to adapt the dictatophone for use by aerial scouts. The idea is that although the pilot has his hands occupied with the controls and so cannot write down his observations he may speak them into a dictatophone mounted on his back and the record may be reproduced when he lands. The experiments, if successful, should be of vast benefit to the industry. French Team for Gordon-Bennett Race. THE Aero Club of France has nominated Jules Vedrines (Deperdussin), Maurice Prevost (Deperdussin), and Andre Frey (Hanriot) to represent France in the forthcoming Gordon-Bennett race in America. Busson (Deperdussin) and Liger (Morane- Saulnier) have been named as reserves. The race is fixed to take place at Chicago on September 9th. St. Cyr to Mourmelon on a Sommer. LEAVING St. Cyr on his Sommer monoplane, on Sunday morning, Bathiat went over to Issy. He left there at a quarter to six in the evening, and landed safely at Mourmelon at 7.18. On the previous day he had flown from Mourmelon to Issy and then on to St. Cyr. The Mishelin Target Prizes. IN the tests for the Michelin Target Prizes at Chalons Camp on Sunday morning, Lieut. Varcin on a Farman and Gaubert on an Astra Wright each got four shots on the target. Lieuts. Bosquet and Battini also started, but had to land again owing to the bad weather. In Honour of Mouillard. CAIRO is following the example of Le Mans in naming a street in memory of Wilbur Wright. The pioneer to be so honoured is Louis Mouillard, and the " rue Louis Mouillard " will keep green the memory of this painstaking student of bird flight, who spent a good deal of his life in Egypt. Rheims to St. Cyr in 80 mins. ALTHOUGH the conditions were none too good, Lieut. Germain on Monday morning left Rheims for Paris, and reached St. Cyr in fine style after an hour and twenty minutes flying. Orleans to Compiegne on Clement-Bayard Monoplane. ON the Clement-Bayard all-steel monoplane, Bobba on Satur day last went from Orleans to Juvisy, and later continued his journey to Compiegne. Touring on a Farman. HAVING taken delivery of his new Maurice Farman biplane, the Marquis de Lareinty-Tholozan has arranged to make a tour on it. He made the first stage from Buc to Trouville on the 3rd inst. in two hours ten minutes, including two stops. Pilots in Hydro-aeroplane Competition. THE pilots named for the hydro-aeroplane competition to be held by the Automobile Club of France at St. Malo, on the 24th, 25th and 26th inst., are: Barra (Paulhan), Andre Beaumont (Donnet - Leveque), Jean Benoist (Sanchez - Besa), G. Busson Capt. Conneau (Beaumont) on his "Donnet-Leveque" in full flight over to London river and sea flight. 734 the Seine in connection with his Paris
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