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AUGUST 9, 1913. IfiiCHf World's Record with Seven Passengers. RtR' ON his huge aeroplane, Sikorsky, at St. Petersburg, on the 2nd inst., made a new world's record by carrying seven passengers for 1 hr. 54 mins., covering in that time 85 versts or 56 miles. The previous record was held in Germany by Faller, who carried seven passengers for 21 mins. Cross-Country Record with Three Passengers. STARTING from the Taliedo aerodrome, near Milan, on the 1st inst., Cevaseo, on a monoplane with three passengers, flew to Venice. His time for the trip of 260 kiloms. was 2 hrs. 45 mins., a world's record for a cross-country voyage with three passengers. A Breguet waterplane of the same type that Bregi has been flying at Brighton daily. This machine is fitted with a 130 h.p. Canton-Unne motor and with compressed air self-starting arrangement. Bregi has been taking up two and three passengers at a time. Records at Westphalian Meeting. " ONE national record was produced by the meeting organised by the West Germany Aerial Society at Cologne last week— Linnekogel, on Friday, getting his monoplane up to a height of 4,250 metres ; the previous German record was 3,260 metres. Each day, with the exception of the 31st, which was a rest day, altitude, duration and speed contests were held, and the competition was very keen. In the duration competition the best performance was that of Stiploscbeck, 2 hrs 21 mins., while the second, Weyl, was only I min. short, and Linnekogel and Stoeffler tied for third place with 2 hrs. 16 mins. President Poincare' accords his Patronage. ON the 29th ult. President Poincare received a deputation from the Aero Club of France and announced that he would be pleased to accord his patronage to the Gordon-Bennett aviation race at Rheims on Sept. 29th and the Gordon-Bennett balloon race at Paris on Oct. 12th. He also promised to be present at the latter event if he returns from Spain in time. A Garros-Brindejonc Match. ON Sunday afternoon Brindejonc des Moulinais and Garros, both on Morane-Saulniers with 80 h.p. Gnome motors, were flying at Marseilles. In the first race of 10 kiloms. Brindejonc's time was One of the latest Breguet biplanes which differs from its predecessors in the central steel tube being replaced by a framework of steel tubes tapering to the tail. It l is also fitted with a brake operated by a lever under the pilot's seat. The engine is a 110 h.p. 9 cyl. Canton-Unne. 88l
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