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1913 - 0520.PDF
1/llGHT " Flight ' Copyright. M. Brindejonc des Moulinais after his arrival from the Continent entering the aerodrome with Capt. Tyrer for a trip on the Morane-Saulnier. Verrier was overtaken towards the end of the last (4th) lap, so the tir>t place went to Porte, who won by 7 sees. Three also started in the second heat : Hawker on the Sopwith tractor biplane •(scratch), Slack on the Bleriot (55 sees.), and Turivr on the MAY 17, 1913. Caudron (1 min. 57 sees.). All three came in the same order in which they started, Turner winning by 17* sees., while there was a difference of three minutes between Slack and Hawker. In the final heat of six laps, Turner, who received 2 mins 21 sees, start, won easily, Slack (1 min. 18 sees, start) being second, Porte (scratch) third, and Verrier (68 sees, start) last. The times of the starters in the final are as follows : — Start. Handicap Time. m. s. Hi. s. 1. L. W. F. Turner (60-h.p. Caud:on biplane)... 2 21 10 45 2. R. Slack (50-h.p. Bleriot monoplane) ... I 18 10 51! 3. Lieut. Porte (100-h.p. Deperdussin monoplane) scratch 10 51* 4. P. Verrier (70.-h.p. Maurice Farman biplane) o 68 .10 58! After this Verrier made a few more passenger flights, and Slack and Hawker left for Brooklands, the former on the BleViot which Hamel was to fly the next day, and the latter on the Sopwith tractor biplane. Further flights were also made by Baumann on the 35-h.p. Caudron biplane, Nardini on his 50-ri.p. Dep., which had been erected that afternoon, and Lieut. Porte. Sunday's work was devoted to exhibition and passenger flights, prominent amongst which were those of Brindejonc des Moulinais, on the 80-h.p. Gnome-Morane-Saulnier monoplane, Claude Grahame- White and Louis Noel on the Maurice Farman biplane, which has been acquired by the Grahame-White Aviation Co. Brindejonc des Moulinais arrived at 3 p.m., having left Brussels at 10.15 that morning, and, after landing at Calais for fuel, had flown on to Hendon without a stop, via Canterbury, Gravesend, Tower of London, Hyde Park and Hampstead. Alter a rest he took up several passengers, the first to ascend being Capt. Tyrer, while Mm. Saulnier also took a trip. This machine is very fast, and its extremely clever young pilot steers fine bankings and spirals ; his landings, also, are very neat. The following is a complete log of the flying during the after noon :—3 p.m., Verrier on the aircraft Maurice Farman ; arrival of Brindejonc des Moulinais; 4.15, Grahame-White on the G.-W. Maurice Farman with passenger ; 4.25, Do. ; 4.26, Verrier on the Maurice Farman; 4.30, Turner on the 60-h.p. Caudron; 4.31, Noel on the G.-W.-Maurice Farman ; 4.33, Verrier on the Maurice Farman with passenger; 4.54, Noel on the G.-W.Maurice Farman ; 5, Turner on the Caudron ; 5.2, Nardini on his 50-h.p. Dtperdussin ; 5.8, Brindejonc des Moulinais with Capt. Tyrer; 5.30, Grahame-White on the Maurice Farman with passenger, off to tea at Miss Maxime Elliott's residence at Bushey ; 5.33, Nardini on the 50-h.p. Dep. ; 5.45, Verrier on the Maurice Farman, followed shortly after by des Moulinais with passenger ; 6.26, Nardini on the Dep. ; 6.28, Grahame-White arrives back accom panied by Lady Rosemary Leveson Gower; 6.30, des Moulinais with passenger ; 6.33, Noel on the Maurice Farman with Manton as passenger: 6.48, des Moulinais with Mm. Saulnier ; 6.55. Hamel arrives back from Hendon; 7, Noel on the Maurice Farman with passenger ; Grahame-White on the Maurice Farman AT HENDON. WHITSUNTIDE.-A view of the new tea pavilion and Press room in the IrfT^ISLe. 542
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