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AUGUST 16, 1913. Ifum AT THE BURTON FRYING MEETING.—On the left Wnitehouse flying the Handley Page monoplane. Above, on the right, Sydney Pickles, in his Bieriot; and below, aviators and others resting- From left to right: Messrs. Cates (Shell), Lane, F. P, Raynham, Meredith, E. Whitehouse, Sydney Pickles, Mrs. Whitehouse, Mr. Murray, Mrs. Goring. Standing behind is Mr. Handley Page. away in the race. During the afternoon there were over ten thousand people present, the sixpenny enclosure being packed. The Round the Island Handicap race of six laps, for a cup offered by the Marquis of Anglesey, was held on Tuesday afternoon, with the result that Mr. Whitehouse won in 9 mins. 50 sees., Mr. Raynham being second (10 mins. 3 sees.), Mr. Pickles third (10 mins. 6 sees.). The Bomb Dropping Competition was also held. During the day Mr. Pickles took up 10 passengers and Mr. Rayn ham 16. Passenger-carrying went on until it was quite dark. Messrs. Bass and Co., were most hospitable to everybody con nected with the meeting, providing tent accommodation and refresh ments for all the aviators and their staff. At the conclusion of the meeting, votes of thanks to Messrs. Bass and Co. for their hospitality, to the organising committee—of which Councillor Tarver was the chairman and Mr. Waude Thompson, the deputy borough engineer, was the secretary—together with a word of praise for the services of the Press, concluded the proceedings. ® ® ® ® . Movements of Zeppelin Airships. ON Saturday evening the " Z 4 " started from Gotha at 9 p.m., and passed over Berlin shortly after midnight, the progress of the vessel, which had her car illuminated, being closely watched by crowds of people in the streets. The airship eventually landed the following morning at 7.30 a.m. at Koenigsburg. On Sunday morning the "Z 5" cruised from Frankfort to Gotha in 3J hours, while the " ZI 2 " took 3\ hours to go from Leipzig to Frankfort. A New Gross Airship. THE latest dirigible designed by Lieut.-Col. Gross, in con junction with Engineer Basenach, has just made her appearance outside the hangar at Reinickendorf. She differs considerably from her predecessors, notably in having the two cars enclosed by a continuation of the fabric of the envelope. The length of the envelope is 321 ft., and the greatest diameter 44 ft., the capacity being about 12,000 cubic yards. During the first trial, which lasted three-quarters of an hour on Monday, the airship behaved splendidly. ® ® First Flights in Galicia. POUMKT, with his Borel-Gnome, has been giving Galicians their first sight of a real aeroplane. On the 3rd inst., he started at 5 p.m. from La Corogna, and in 55 mins. flew the no kiloms. over the mountains to Santiago-de-Compostelle. New Ground for U.S. Army, FOR a period of three months the U.S. Government has leased a 100-acre tract of land at Fairfield, not far from the flying A New Russian Dirigible. IT is announced from St. Petersburg that an order has been placed with the Ijorsky works for a dirigible designed by General A. Kovanko, director of the military aeronautic school. The dirigible will have an envelope of 20,000 cubic metres capacity. Long Trip by "Sachsen." LEAVING Hamburg at 5.20 a.m. on Tuesday of last week, the Zeppelin " Sachsen " cruised to Isle of Sylt, which was reached at 9.45. A start on the return journey was made at 10 o'clock, and live hours later the airship was back at Hamburg. "Z2" and "Z5" Meet in the Air at Night. AN interesting experiment was tried with two Zeppelin cruisers last week. The " Z 5 " was ordered to cruise from Baden- Baden to Frankfort, and in the course of the journey the commander received a wireless telegraph message to change his direction and cruise to Mayence, keeping a look out for the "Z 2." The latter craft left Cologne at 11.30 p.m., and following the Rhine Valley, reached Mayence at 2 a.m. Afterwards the two airships cruised in company for about an hour before returning to their hangar. ® ® ground of the Wright Co., at Dayton, Ohio. During this month tests are to be conducted there with high-powered biplanes built by the Curtiss, Wright and Burgess Cos. Long Flight by U. S. Officers. ON July 23rd Lieut. B. L. Smith and Ensign G. de C. Chevalier, in a Curtiss flying boat, made a non-stop flight from Annapolis, Md., to Old Point Comfort, Va., the 145-mile trip taking 2\ hrs. 913
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