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Prince Axel of Denmark, who is a certified pilot, explaining the controls of the Maurice Farman biplane to King Christian X of Denmark. More Nieuport Superior Pilots. 'BL«f ON the 30th ult. Armand Malard succeeded in making all the qualifying flights for a superior certificate in one day. Setting out from Villacoublay on his Nieuport at 7.30 a.m. he finished the triangular event via Orleans, and Chartres at 11.25 a.m. In the afternoon^he made the straight line flight, going from Villacoublay to Chalons in I hr. 50 mins. Louis Chapier, a Comite Nationale pupil, also went from Villacoublay to Chalons, taking an hour and three quarters for the trip. Louis Brullard also made one of the triangular tests over the Villacoublay-Orleans-Chartres course. M. Bienaime Learning to Fly. ONE of the best-known balloonists in France, and the winner of the last Gordon-Bennett balloon race, M. Bienaime, has taken up aviation, and after a course of instruction at the Caudron School .at Crotoy, has just secured his pilote-aviateur's certificate. A FarmanlSuperior Pilot. "•no CONCLUDING his cross-country flights for a superior brevet, Bagnol, a C.N. pupil, on Saturday flew through the pouring rain from Mailly Camp to Etampes, a distance of more than 150 kiloras. Another French Balloonist Tries Aviation. m,K' FOLLOWING the example of M. Maurice Bienaime, M. Pierron, another prominent French balloonist, has taken up aviation. After only eight days of training he qualified for his brevet on the 2nd inst. at the Bleriot school at Buc. ind&> ' Buc to Poitiers and Back. ACCOMPANIED by a passenger, Lieut. Faurite, on Sunday week, made a non-stop flight to Poitiers on a Borel. The following Friday he returned to Buc, and on this trip his speed worked out to 150 k.p.h. Rheims to Paris in Company. AFTER the Rheims meeting it was decided to take the Morane machine back to Villacoublay by the aerial way. There were four machines and the trip was made on Friday of last week, the pilots being Leon Morane, accompanied by M. Frantz Reichel, Garros and Legagneux, each with a lady passenger, while the fourth machine was in charge of the Argentine aviator, Mr. George Newbery. They started at 11.30 a.m. and, keeping together, arrived at Villacoublay at 12.20. Farmaa Waterplane at Biarritz. AT the conclusion of the hydro-aeroplane meeting at San Sebastian, Renaux flew over to Biarritz and decided to accept an invitation to stay for a fortnight and give exhibition and passenger flights. A Quick-firer on an Aeroplane. EXPERIMENTS have recently been carried out at Rheims with a quick-firing gun mounted on an aeroplane. The target consisted of the wings and fuselage of an old aeroplane, which was, at the conclusion of the test, riddled with bullets. The trials are to be continued, probably, with a moving target. The Etrich monoplane. 1127 ' Flight " Copyright.
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