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JUNE 5, 1914. BALLOONS. DISTANCE. Holder , -r , Country _ _. of Record. ! Vovage Effected. Holding , Pate , Dls- Reco.d ofK"ord. tance. Hugo Kaulen. Bitterfeld (Ger- Germany Dec. 13- 2.827^00 many)-St. Peters- I7th burg-Perm ,qI3' (Siberia, Russia) I DURATION. Holder of Record. Voyage Effected. Hugo Kaulen : Bitterfeld (Germany)- St. Petersburg-Perm (Siberia, Russia) Holding £**°f Time. Record Record- Germany Dec. 13- 17th, 1913 87 hours ALTITUDE. Suring and Berson ® ® The Daily Mail Circuit of Britain. WHEN the entries for the Daily Mail Circuit of Britain closed at ordinary fees on Saturday last they numbered eight. The entries close finally on June 30th. At present they include two Curtiss machines, entered by Messrs. White and Thompson, one to be piloted by Mr. Loftus Bryan, fitted with two 100 h.p. Curtiss engines; while the other, to be flown by Capt. Bass, will have a 125 h.p. Anzani engine; twoSopwith biplanes, one with 150 h.p. Sunbeam engine, which C. H. Pixton will pilot, and the other, with a 100 h.p. British-Gnome motor, of which Hawker will be in charge ; a Grahame-White biplane, with 100 h.p. British-Gnome motor, which Mr. Claude Grahame-White may pilot; an Avrowith 150 h.p. Sunbeam engine, with Mr. E. P. Raynham as pilot; an E.A.C. biplane, with 120 h.p. Green engine, which Mr. F. B. Fowler will pilot, while the eighth is a Blackburn monoplane, with 130 h.p. Salmson, which Mr. Sydney Pickles is to pilot. [fycHf] DIRIGIBLES. DISTANCE. Dirigible Voyage Effected. P. 5 - Verona- Sanguinetto - Modena - Casena - Ancona - Venice - Monte-Belluna - Vi- centa-Verona Country Holding Record. Italy ... Date of Record. July 30th, '9«3 Dis tance. kiloms. 810 ?• s Come DURATION. Time. Verona - Cremona - | Italy ...j June 25th, 15 hours. Pavia - Turin - Chi- ! 1913 vasso - Mortara - Mi lan-Brescia-Verona Altitude metres. Issy-les-Moulineaux ...] France j June 18th, j 3,080 1912 Speed SPEED. ALTITUDE. per hour, kiloms. 64'800 P. 5 ...Verona - Sanguinetto-- Italy ... July 30th, Modena-Casena-An- [ 1913 cona-Venice-Monte- j Belluna-Vicenza- Ve rona 166, Piccadilly, W. HAROLD E. PERRIN, Secretary. ® ® Testintr the Langley Machine. READERS of FLIGHT will recall that at the beginning of this year it was stated that the Smithsonian Institution, the great national museum of the U.S.A., announced that while it could not allow the original Langley machine to be taken from its place in order to be tested, they would willingly allow anyone every facility to obtain dimensions in order to build an exact duplicate. A cable message from New York states that the flying capabilities of the machine designed by Langley were demonstrated on Friday last week by Glenn Curtiss in a short flight over the lake at Hammond- sport, New York. Instead of the catapult launching device used by Langley, however, the machine was fitted with floats and rose from the water. This test has a purpose in view, besides vindica ting Langley. It is held that by this proof of the capability of the Langley machine to fly, certain patent claims can be successfully overcome. V \^0mm f>j|j| THF "VICTORIA LOUISE" AIRSHIP OVER FRANKFURT.-On the right the Zeppelin hangar at Frankfurt. ?2L ^Sraohs> react.us from Mr. L. F. Hutcheon, who writes as follows: "These prints are from negatives Sen by myfeH a Frankfurt'"m-Maine this year. The 'Victoria Louise' (owned by the town of Frankfurt) was aken from my bedroom at six o'clock in the evening when it was cruising over Frankfurt On cruises such as this only The forward propellers and the engines in the first gondola are used. Passenger flights cost 200 marks (about ijiO 601
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