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AUGUST 30, 1913. Fourny Trying for Michelin Cup. FOURNY, who holds both the world's distance and duration records, is making a bold bid for the International Michelin Cup, and on the 22nd inst. he flew from Buc to Etampes on the machine he proposes to use on Monday he made seven rounds of the Etampes Gidy course and another seven rounds were made on Tuesday. Farmans for Sweden. BEFORE a deputation of Swedish officers at Buc on Saturday, Bille was testing a Farman ordered by the Swedish Government. With a full load of 280 kilogs., it rose 500 metres in 54 mins., and easily fulfilled all the other stipulated tests. A Nieuport Superior Pilot. ON Monday de Neufville completed his practical tests for a military pilot certificate, flying his Nieuport monoplane over the Villacoublay-Chartres-Orleans circuit. Flying Across the North of France. ON Monday morning Lieut. Cassin, accoompanied by a sapper, landed at the Beau Marais aerodrome, having flown over from Mourmelon, with stops at Etampes, Rouen and Crotoy. L/ycHT A German Prize Won. LAST week, at the Halberstadt Aerodrome, Kaniss won one of the national prizes—£240— by flying with a passenger for three hours. Chevlllard in Italy. WITH Mr. Lawrence Santoni as passenger, Chevillard, on the 19th inst., at Pordenone, carried out tests with the first of a series of M. Farmans ordered for the Italian Army. About ioo officers from Pordenone and Aviano witnessed the tests, which included a flight of two hours at an altitude of 1,500 metres, and rising 1,000 metres in 15 mins. Flying Corps for Norway. FOR the new Flying Corps which is being organised by the Norwegian military authorities, Capt. Tanlow has been appointed Chief of Tactics, while Capt. Sem Jakobsen will be the director of the Technical Department. Aeroplanes at Russian Review. AT the review held at Krasnoie Selo on the 10th inst., at which the Tsar was present, fifteen aeroplanes took part. While the troops were manoeuvring, the machines, which included 11 Nieuports, Mr. J. Welby Madeley, M.A.M. Inst C.E., who passed for his pilot's certificate on August 22nd at the Farman School, Etampes, France. The Maurice Farman, with Mr. Madeley in the pilot's seat, is also seen above. He intends continuing his training, and is taking back in September a Maurice Farman to Madras where Mr. Madeley is Special Engineer to the Corporation of that city. Night Flying at Berne. ON the 19th inst., after nightfall, Bider, on his Bleriot, was flying over Berne and its environs for 25 mins. Aeroplanes in Belgium Manoeuvres. EIGHT aeroplanes are taking part in the Belgian Army manoeuvres in Luxembourg, and these made the journey from the Brasschaet aerodrome to Namur on Monday, stopping en route at Louvain. Long Flight In Germany. AT the conclusion of the Gotha Meeting, in which he had taken part, Stoeffler, accompanied by Capt. Berchtold, on the 22nd inst., flew on his Albatross triplane to Strasburg, a non-stop flight of 350 kiloms. To Distinguish Competitors in Berlin Race. So similar in general appearance are a number of the machines taking part in the Round Berlin Race that the organisers have had to consider a means so that the timekeepers may identify them. It has now been decided to fit guns to each machine which will fire rockets in various colour combinations when passing the various controls. Fatal Accident in Germany. WHILE flying a monoplane at Halberstadt on Friday of last week, Lieut. Schmidt was apparently caught in a remous at a height of about 500 metres. He had come down by a steep vol plane horn a height of 1,000 metres, when the machine capsized and dropped to the ground. 3 Farmans and a Wright, carried out a series or flights. Sikorsky's giant biplane was on the ground and, after the review, was closely inspected by the Tsar, who subsequently saw the machine in the air carrying several passengers. An Algerian Record. FROM Oran it is announced that on Sunday last Servies, on a Deperdussin-Gnome, with a passenger, flew 125 kiloms., a distance record for Algeria. ® fc) ® ® British Navy and Forlanini Airship. DURING the week-end several trial trips of three hours' dura tion have been made with the latest Forlanini airship, and among the passengers taken up was Capt. Murray Sueter, Director of the Air Department at the Admiralty, who, with Engineer-Lieut. Aldwell, is paying a special visit to Milan to obtain full particulars of the airship. The envelope of this latest airship is of 400,000 cubic feet capacity, and along three-quarters of the bottom side there extends a girder structure which comprises the cars, &c. The New Clement-Bayard Airship. ON the 21st inst. the " Clement-Bayard VI" had two trial trips. In the first, with eight persons on board, she cruised over Rethondes, Franceport, Choisy-Bas, Compiegne, Vieux-Moulin and Pierrefonds, and after being in the air for just on two hours a fine descent was made by the aid of the special horizontal propeller. In the afternoon another trip of about one hour's duration was made, and among the passengers was Col. Bouttieaux. 965
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