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JANUARY 3, i9I4. t/DGHTj Details of the Dep. float attachment- Flight " Copyright. A neat way " Flight" Copyright. of mounting the instruments on the Deperdussin monoplane. One of the machines shown was the actual monoplane on which Prevost won the Gordon-Bennett Race, and which was described fully in FLIGHT only a short time ago. The other land machine is the one flown by Gilbert in his famous flight from Paris to Putnitz on the Baltic Sea, a distance of 1,050 kiloms., which he covered in 5 hrs. 11 mins., or at an average speed of over 200 kiloms. an hour. The tanks necessitated by so long a flight were mounted on the outside of the fuselage in such a manner that they did not disturb the symmetry of the machine, but on the contrary were utilised to form the excellent streamline. Except for the fact that this machine has more serviceable wings braced in a more secure manner, it was practically the same as the Gordon-Bennett racer. The third machine shown was a hydro-monoplane which does not seem to differ materially from previous Dep. hydros. It was a two- seater monoplane, with the pilot's and passenger's seats arranged tandem fashion. (To be continued.) ® ® ® ® Legagneux Beats the Height Record. AFTER making an unsuccessful attempt to improve on the world's height record at Villacoublay, on the 19th ult., when he only got up to 5,700 metres, Legagneux had hi» Nieuport mono plane despatched to St. Raphael in the Riviera. There his efforts were rewarded, and on Saturday, during a flight which lasted 1 hr. 49 mins. the barograph showed that he attained an altitude of 6,150 metres (20,200 ft.). The old record was 5,880 metres (19,600 ft.), made by the late E. Perreyon on a Bleriot, at Buc, on March nth, 1913. Legagneux started from the Frejus aerodrome. To assist his breathing he inhaled oxygen when ascending above 4,000 ft., and when he landed his barograph was covered with ice. The machine was a light Nieuport, fitted with an 80 h.p. Rhone motor and Chauviere propeller, and the planes were doped with Novavia. It is interesting to recall the progress of the height record. At the end of 1908 it stood to the credit of Wilbur Wright, with 100 metres ; in 1909 to Latham, 453 metres ; in 1910 to Legagneux, with 3,100 metres; in 1911 to Garros, with 3,950 metres, and in 1913 also to Garros, with 5,601 metres. Other Aspirants for Height Honours. THREE other pilots besides Legagneux are also in the South of France with the object of attacking the height record, Garros and Gilbert being at Frejus with Morane monoplanes, while Bielovucic is at Nice with a Ponnier. Through American Eyes. THE looping-the-loop feats of Lincoln Beachey on a 90-100 h.p. Curtiss machine has roused the vivid imagination of one American reporter. He says : "There is as much difference between the loop- theloop flying of Beachey and that of the Frenchman, Pegoud, as between the trans-Atlantic performance of one Crtotoforo Colombo and that of a modern liner. To give Pegoud his due—he did it first. But he flew upside down and looped-the-loop with passenger- canying wings of large surface and an engine of small power. His machine probably carried not more than 3i lbs. to the square foot, and flew at a speed of less than 4 5 miles an hour. Beachey, on the other hand, is looping the loop in a small surfaced speed machine. It is carrying about 6 lbs. to the sq. ft. of lifting surface, has one of the 90-100 h.p. Curtiss motors, and flies at approximately 75 miles an hour. One machine flutters over like a dead leaf turning in still air ; the other shrieks in an aerial circle like a crazy sky-rocket." A Record Balloon Trip. ON Saturday, December 13th, the German balloon " Duisburg" ascended from Bitterfeld with three pas-engers, Von Kaulen, Schmitz and Krest. After being in the air for 87 hours, it landed at Perm, in East Russia, close to the Ural Mountains, so that a distance of 2,800 kilometres (about 1,740 miles) had been covered, thus beating the world's record of 2,400 kiloms. of M. Bienaime. 9
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