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JANUARY 8, 1920 The Deutsch Cup Contest ON January 4 Sadi-Lecointe, on bis Nieuport-Hispano, '. succeeded in beating his own previous record on a Spad for . the Deutsch Cup. He covered the 190 kilom. circuit round •)••" Paris in 42 min. 53! sees., equal to 266-314 kiloms. per hour : • (165 miles an hour). - French Atlantic Flight Scheme .y ARRANGEMENTS are being made for a French machine ? 'to attempt a flight over the Atlantic from Dakar to Pernam- -; buco, probably in April or May. The distance is about > - 1,900 miles, but it is proposed to use a machine with a radius ' X - of 3,000 miles. •'• Paris-Saigon Flight to be Attempted.FOR several weeks past the French pilots Drouilh and Desnozelles have been experimenting with a two-engined(300 h.p. Hispano Suiza) Nieuport-Tellier seaplane with a view to flying from Paris to Saigon, Indo-China. For this trip ofover 9,000 miles the route will be over St. Raphael, Naples, Athens, Antioch, Basra, Bander Abbas, Karachi, Allahabad,Chittagong, Rangoon and Bangkok, and it is proposed to divide it into 13 stages of roughly 1,000 kiloms. each. Theenterprise is being subsidised by the Association of Exporters of Rice in Indo-China and the machine has been christened" Pourquoi-Pas." A New Looping Record WE have had what may be called the looping duration record, and now a Frenchman has set up a looping speed record. On Sunday week M. Pillon is stated to have looped 29 times in 5 mins. at a height of between 300 and 350 metres on a Farman sporting type machine. The French Aviation Regiments IT has now been decided that the seven observation regiments in the French service shall be distributed as fol- , lows :—1, Tours ; 2, Longvic (Dijon) ; 3, Beauvais ; 4, Le Bourget; 5, Lyon-Bron ; 6, Toul; 7, Pau. Of the three bombarding regiments one will be stationed at Metz, one at Malzeville-Luxeuil, and the third at Avord. The three chasing regiments will be quartered at Thionville, Strasbourg and Chateauroux respectively. The two colonial regiments, one for Morocco and oae for • Algeria, and Tunisia will each be complete in themselves, comprising observation, chasing and bombarding sections. The stations in Morocco will be at Rabat and Casablanca, in Algeria at Hussein-Dey, and in Tunisia at Tunis. A Lady's Flight to Morocco A FRENCH br de arrived at Rabat, Morocco, 011 Decem- ber 19, having travelled as a passenger on a 300 h.p. Breguet, piloted by her husband, Lieut. Daurat, from Toulouse. The distance is roughly 1,150 miles, and the route followed was via Barcelona, Valencia, Alicante, Granada, Malaga and ' Tangier. She claims to be the first woman to fly from France to Morocco. Prince Loops the Loop • DURING his recent visit to France, Prince Eric of Denmark, with two Danish officers, went out to the Villacoublay Aerodrome and saw the aviator Fronval give a display on his Farman machine. Later Prince Eric ascended with Fronyal and looped the loop several times. . •- Aviation at the Fetes de Paris IN connection with the Fetes de Paris it is proposed to hold competitions for aeroplanes at Juvisy on May 22 and 23. The classes include those for single-seaters, two-seaters and multi-seaters fitted with one or more engines, and only French-built machines will be eligible, while pilots must have taken the French military brevet. , ,_-'... Seaplane Contests at Antwerp , - :^ ARRANGEMENTS are being made to hold competitions for seaplanes at Antwerp during the second fortnight in July. There will be two main divisions: with tests for speed and weight-lifting, and other points which will be observed will be endurance, security and flotation. There will also be two contests for machines specially designed for colonial use, and the winners, besides receiving cups, will be purchased. D'Annunzio's Rome-Tokyo Flight IF the Fiume business is settled d'Annunzio proposes tostart on his expedition from Rome to Tokyo about January 15. Three machines will be used—two three-seaters and one two-seater—the former carrying two pilots and two mechanics, and the other two pilots. The pilots engaged are Lieuts.Garrone, Abba, Ronalumi, Negrini and Scavini. Germany's Aerial Losses FIGURES which have recently been published in Germany go to show that the total losses in the German air service during the War totalled 2,483 dead and 3,327 injured. These . figures are made up as follows :— At the Front. In Germany. . ,. Dead. Injured. ' :: ,i: •" Acci- Acci- Dead. Injured dents. Fights dents. Fights. Pilots .. .. 783 426 1,020 652 430 39 Observers .. 176 305 312 425 49 32 Mechanics .. 96 19 138 13 40 51 In addition 159 student-pilots were killed and 247 injured in Germany during the War period. - Germany's Aerial Force > A- ON the occasion of a recent commemoration in honour of Capt. Boelke, organised by the Aero Club of Berlin, some interesting figures were published which illustrate the growth of Germany's Air Service during the War. The figures are as follows :— Aug., 1914. Nov., 1918. Machines (fighting, bombing, scouting) 246 4>°5° Escadrilles for defending the interior 18 . 108 Pilots at the front .. .. .. 500 5,ooe Personnel in the interior .. .. 500 80,000 Monthly consumption of spirit, litres 600,000 7,000,000 Machines fitted with cameras .. 100 2,000 Zeppelin Activity A NEW biplane, capable of carrying 50 passengers, is being turned out by the Zeppelin works. The machine, which is of 52 m. span, is equipped with four 260 h.p. motors. It is said that it has a speed of between 100 and no m.p.h., and a radius of action of 2,200 miles. The Zeppelin works at Friedrichshafen and Spandau are now busy on new dirigables, larger than the " Bodensee." A Fokker Giant M. FOKKER continues to keep himself in the limelight. It is now stated that he has drafted the plans of, and will shortly begin building, a large passenger aeroplane capable of carrying 60 passengers. The machine, intended for long overland flights, will have six motors, which it is hoped will give it a speed of 75 miles an hour. Sleeping berths and a smoking- room^are to be constructed under the planes. Aircraft Construction in Norway A PROPOSAL has been made by the Norwegian Aircraft Commission that concessions for aircraft within Norwegian frontiers should be only granted to Norwegian companies, with certain reciprocal exceptions. A Swedish Appointment DR. MALMER, the Director of the Thulin aeroplane worksat Landskrona, has ..been appointed Lecturer in Technical Aviation at the Stockholm Technical Academy. Peruvian Coastal Service UNDER the auspices of the Peruvian Corporation, Handley Page will inaugurate a coastal hydroplane service, reports The Times correspondent at Lima. One pilot and three mechanics arrived in the Ortega, and two hydroplanes and the second pilot are expected in a fortnight. The first service will be established between Callao, the summer resort of Ancon, and Port Salaverry. Air Services, in Argentina A REGULAR air service has been inaugurated betweenBuenos Aires and Montevideo by members of the French Aviation Mission which has been in Argentina for some time ., with the object of organising such services in various parts.of the country. U.S. Aeroplanes in Peru Two Curtiss aeroplanes of 90 h.p. are now flying here, reports The Times correspondent at Lima. Three more Curtiss planes have been shipped from New York, and the Curtiss firm is planning to enter the Peruvian aviation field on an extensive scale and to acquire its own aerodrome. The Vickers Chinese Contract THE contract for aeroplanes secured by the Vickers Co. from the Chinese Government appears to have caused a fluttering in the dovecotes in the United States. At any rate, a message from Peking makes it appear that the American Legation has protested to the Chinese Foreign Office against the Vickers contract on the ground that 10 years' preference on the supply of similar aeroplanes is opposed to equal oppor- tunity for other countries.
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