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APRII 5, 1913. THE NEW DAILY MAIL PRIZES. ONCE more the proprietors of the Daily Mail have come forward and offered two generous prizes with the object of stimu lating progress in the development of aviation, with which we deal •elsewhere editiorially. The first prize is the sum of £5,000 to the first person who shall .pilot a waterplane of entirely British invention and construction round England, Scotland, and Wales—and, so far as Ireland is -concerned, within one mile of Kingstown Harbour—in seventy-two continuous hours, starting and finishing at a point to be agreed upon near the mouth of the Thames. The full regulations which will be drawn up with the assistance of the Royal Aero Club have not yet been decided upon, but it will be specified that certain parts of the machine shall be marked and that the machine must not • descend on land at any point, although it may, of course, stop in harbours for the replenishment of its fuel supplies, &c. The second prize is £10,000 to the first person who crosses • the Atlantic from any point in the United States, Canada, or Newfoundland to any point in Great Britain or Ireland in seventy- two continuous hours. The flight may lie made, of course, either •way across the Atlantic. This prize is open to pilots of any nationality, and machines of foreign or British construction. The Daily Mail announces that the first entries for both prizes are those of Messrs. Bleriot, Ltd., and Col. Cody, while Mr. •Gordon England and Herr Rumpler have also entered for the Atlantic prize, and Mr. J. Radley and Mr. G. L. Temple for the Round Britain prize. Previous Daily Mail Prizes, IN this connection the following summary of the prizes offered 1 by the Daily Mail is not without interest : — \fssm £10,000 or flight by aeroplane from London to Manchester in twenty-four hours with not more than two stoppages #* »****• Oflered November 17th, 1906. Won by M. Paulhan M April a8th, 1910, with one stop m rent* at Lichfield. 183 miles covered in 241 minutes. £1,000 for flight across the channel lietween England and France, to be accomplished in daylight without touching the sea. Offered on October 5th, 1908. Won by M. Bleriot, July 25th, 1909, in 46 minutes of flight. ,£1,000 for first circular flight of one mile in an aeroplane by a British subject in the British Isles on an all-British Unit m.whiiic. W«n by Mr. J. T. C. Moure-Brabazon in a Short aeroplane on October 30th, 1909, in 2 mins. 36 sees. £10,000 for circuit of Britain covering a distance of 1,000miles in one day with eleven compulsory slops at fixed controls. Offered on May sand, 1910. Won by M. Beaumont on July 26th, toil, in 22 hrs. 28 mins., at 45 miles an hour, defeating M. VMrines. £1,000 for greatest aggregate cross-county flight iu the year ending August 15th, 1010. Won by M. l'aulhan with 855 miles, defeating Mr. Grahame-White with 842 rpflw. £' 50, £75, and £25 for aeroplane models awarded after exhibii In at the Agricultural Hall, April, 1907. 2100 for half-mile flight (quarter-mile out and return), won by M. Henry Farman, January 14th, 1908. £100 cup for second cross-Channel flight. Won by Count Jacques de Lesseps, May 2lsl, 1910. £50 cup to John B. Moisant for flight from I'aris to London, and smaller cup to his mechanic and passenger, Fileux. Won Sep tember 6th, 191a £250 and gold cup for flight of Si miles IP—d I-ondon. Won by Mr. T. O. M. Sopwith on June 8th, 1912, in 90 minutes.
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