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NOVEMBER 29, 1913. Fine Flight by French Military Aviator. ON Saturday Lieut. Delvert arrived at Bourges after a very fine flight on a H. Farman from Etampes. New Farman Military Pilots. ON the 19th inst., Lieut. Provillard, on a Farman, made the triangular flight for his military or superior brevet over the Buc- Chartres-Orleans course. A similar flight was made by Rene Germain over the 220-kilom.course,Etampes-Vendome-Chateaudun. Helen's Try for Michelin Cup. FOR another week Helen on his Nieuport monoplane has con tinued to make five laps per day of the IO6-6 kilom. circuit between Etampes and Circottes. Up to Sunday night Helen had flown 12,792 kiloms. during 24 consecutive days. The Fatal Accident to Perreyon. BY the mishap at Buc on Tuesday which cost Perreyon his life, the Bleriot school has lost one of its best pilots, although his name was but little known beyond the circle of those intimately connected with aviation. Having qualified for his pilot's certificate at the Bleriot school at Etampes in December, 1910, he continued to practise for some six months or so, and was then appointed chef pilote and instructor. From that time he made a habit of making a flight once a day, irrespective of the weather. It will be remembered that he holds the world's height record with 5,880 metres (19,293 ft.). On Tuesday morning he set out to test a Bleriot monoplane of a new type with the pilot's seat arranged at the front of the main plane, and wiih the engine and propeller at the trailing edge. After a good flight he was preparing to land, but apparently miscalculated the distance when making too sharp a dive when about only 20 yds. from the ground. The nose of the machine struck the earth, and the monoplane overturned on to the pilot, who was killed by being crushed by the engine. More Looping the Loop. ON a Caudron biplane fitted with 60 h.p. Gnome engine, Chanteloup gave a most extraordinary display ot flying at Issy on Friday of last week, and at Juvisy on Sunday he looped the loop several times, made several horizontal circles in the air with the planes practically vertical, and also carried out the corkscrew twist. At Villacoublay on Wednesday and Thursday week, Garros suc ceeded in looping the loop on the Morane machine on which he crossed the Mediterranean. On his first trial the machine was stalled just before completing the loop, and side-slipped for a con siderable distance, but Garros was able to regain the control. On the second attempt, however, two perfect circles were made. From America it is reported that at Los Angeles, Cal., on the 19th inst., Lincoln Beachey, on a specially built Curtiss machine, succeeded in looping the loop at a height of 3,600 ft., and flew upside down for a short distance. He also made a dive in the form of a Z. On Sunday, Pegoud gave a demonstration at Munich, while on Thursday week Hanouille did some looping on his Bleriot at Buc. An Involuntary Looping. WHILE making an attempt at Etampes on the height record Rost had a most exciting few moments. He had got to a height of about 4,500 metres, when he found the wind took the machine out of his control. The machine dived, and according to an eyewitness it somersaulted about twenty times. Fortunately after the machine [AlGHT] had dropped in this way for about 3,000 metres, the pilot never having lost his head, no doubt through the lessons taught by Pegoud, was able to regain control, and managed to effect a safe landing. Fast Flying on Deps. ON new two-seater 80 h.p. Deperdussin monoplanes, Lieuts. Redelsperger and Radisson, accompanied oy their mechanics on Saturday, flew the 150 kiloms. between Rheims and Douai in I hr. 10 inins. A Nieuport Superior Pilot. AT Villacoublay, on the 21st inst., Adrien Levasseur, a Comite Nationale pupil, made his first flight to qualify for a superior brevet over the Villacoublay-Orleans-Chartres course. Mme. de Laroche Leads in Coupe Femina. BY a remarkably fine flight of 2C0 miles in four hours, on her Henry Farman biplane, at Rheims on Tuesday, Mine, de Laroche secured the first place in the competition for the Coupe Femina. Another French Aviator Suspended. AT the instigation of the French Minister of the Interior, the Commission Sportive Aeronautique has suspended the pilot's certificate of the pilot Landry for one month, for flying in contra vention of an order by the sous-prefet of Sables d'Olonne. Fatal Accident at Chantllly. ON Monday afternoon the pilot Corbon was killed at La Vidamee aerodrome, near Chantllly, through the falling of his monoplane. Long Cross-country Trip in Germany. WITH a passenger, Lieut. Geyer on a biplane on Saturday flew from Strasburg to Berlin in 4 hrs. 25 mins., the distance flown being about 600 kiloms. Bonnier's Trip Across Europe. RESUMING his journey on the 21st inst., Bonnier with a passenger on his Nieuport monoplane, flew from Budapesth to Arad, covering the 260 kiloms. in 3 hours. On Saturday he completed another stage by reaching Craiova, and on landing slightly damaged the machine which will entail some delay. Daucourt's Flight to Cairo. LEAVING Adabazar on the 21st inst., Daucourt and Roux flew to Eskichehir in Turkey in Asia, while on Saturday the two aviators arrived on their Borel monoplane at Theian. Further progress was made on Monday to Ihsain and on Tuesday to Konia. Spanish Officers Under Fire. Two of the Spanish military pilots owe their promotion to their bravery under fire. Capt. Barreiro and Lieut. Rios were making a reconnaissance over a Moorish encampment, on Thursday of last week, when the Moors opened fire. Both officers were seriously wounded, but they succeeded in getting back to their base and then collapsed. They were taken to hospital and the com mander recommended them for promotien for their bravery and endurance. A Double Fatality in the U.S. FROM San Diego, Cal., where the U.S. Army has an aviation school, it is reported that Lieuts. Ellington and Kelly, two of the finest pilots in the U.S. Army, were killed on Monday through their aeroplane falling. ® ® ® ® EDDY WINDS OF GIBRALTAR. AN interesting paper on the above subject was read by Mr. Henry Harries, F.R.Met.Soc, before the Royal Meteorological Society on November 19th last. The author gives an account of some experiments he carried out at the Signal Station, which is situated about 1,300 ft. above the sea level, at Gibraltar in December of last year. The procedure he followed was to project small air balloons, black wadding and white cotton wool into the current of air ascending the eastern face of the Rock when an easterly wind was blowing, and observe their path during flight. It was found that when the velocity of the wind blowing was low (from 15 to 5 miles per hour), or if they were pushed out to an insufficient distance into the ascending stream, the wadding and cotton wool rose to a height of some 10 or 12 ft. at an angle of about 75° or 80° towards the west, and then curved down wards and backwards into the hands of the observers. The air balloons behaved in a similar manner, except that they travelled to greater heights and came to rest on the western slope, about 60 yds. from the starting point. With a stronger wind—about 30 to 40 miles per hour—the wadding and wool rose at a terrific pace to an altitude of about 100 ft., passed some distance to the westward, were caught by the current from the north, and as they were borne southward they performed the most graceful evolutions—circling, diving ascending, breasting local eddies and imitating in a very remarkable manner the easy movements of gulls floating on the air, with their wings stretched out at full length. The resemblance was more marked because many of the bunches of fluff were so blown out by the wind that they seemed to have bodies and wing^s. From this reproduction of the realistic flights of birds—sea birds in particular- he was led to believe that the movements of birds on the wing, under similar circumstances, are not altogether voluntary on their part, the evolutions of the birds resulting from their being brought within the influence of aerial eddies of more or less intensity. At any rate, he saw little or no difference between the movements of living birds and those of the inanimate fluff thrown into the breeze. He thought that a closer study of these evolutions might provide aviators with clues as to the best methods of navigating through so- called holes or pockets in the air. Mr. Harries also noted the effects produced by squall moving due west and east across the Bay. This raised a furrow of water which curled over from north towards the south—not a wave driven before a west wind and breaking with its front towards the east. He was disposed to regard it as caused by a descending squall from some northerly point arrested by a southerly or south-westerly wind, and considered that the phenomenon should not be ignored on account of its possible serious effects upon small boats and airships crossing the line of advance. 13C9
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