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1920
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MAY 6 1920 The Tellier-His-pano boat, piloted by Hurel, whichis taking part in the flight toTunis. This machine has twoHispano engines, one driving atractor and one a pusher. Inother respects it is s bnilar toLeeointe's machine " Flight " Copyright well, even when fitted with the small racing wings. Shortlyafter 11 o'clock a black speck was seen in the sky in the direction of Cape Martin. From the speed at which it ap-proached we guessed it to be the racing Savoia, piloted by Janello, arriving from Vintimiglia. This proved to becorrect and, coming in at a terrific pace, the Savoia shot between the two lighthouses at the mouth of the harbour.To most of the spectators, and certainly to the writer, it appeared absolutely impossible for Janello to pull up intime before reaching the houses on the Condamine. The first splash indicating contact between the water and thestep of the boat was not seen until the machine was quite half-way into the little harbour, and at the speed at whichthe Savoia was going one simply gasped at the thought of what would happen. However, after once having touched,the machine pulled up very quickly and, with the exception of lightly touching a buoy with her lower plane when thespeed was down to about 5 or 6 m.p.h., Janello beached her at the inner end of the harbour without inciient. This alight-ing was one of the finest bits of piloting one has seen for a long time, and serves to show what an excellent pilot isSignor Janello. As one who had watched the performance of the other machines very closely for the past week or tendays, the writer felt convinced that, barring accidents, the speed race would go to Janello, the Savoia being obviouslymiles faster than the Spad, even after racing wings had been fitted to that machine. About an hour after his alightingJanello took up the racing Savoia for its altitude test which he found no difficulty in far surpassing. During the day anumber of flying-boats belonging to the Naval Air Service came over from St. Raphael to see the speed race. About an hour before the start of the speed race an airship was seen approaching from the direction of St. Raphael.This proves to be an Astra Torres (A.T. 9) which has cruised over from Toulon. She passes over the Tir aux Pigeonsand cruises towards Mentone, returning shortly afterwards, and after a few evolutions points her nose towards Toulonand disappears behind the Monaco Rock. Towards three o'clock every point of vantage in the Principality appearsto be black with people who are eager to see the speed race. The Tir aux Pigeons is the scene of a distinguished gathering,looking towards the harbour mouth whence will come, on the firing of the usual signal, the three machines entered forthe speed contest. The first to get away is de Romanet on the Spad, who makes a very clean get-away and immediatelyheads for Cape Martin, the first turning-point. He is seen to round the mark boat outside the cape and is soon comingback towards Monaco. Here he passes over the mark boat outside the Tir aux Pigeons and disappears behind FortAntoine on his way to the Garoupe lighthouse which is the far turning-point of the course. The gun goes for Janello,who at that moment is cruising about in the harbour with his machine facing into the harbour. A little time is lost ingetting the machine into position for the take-off, but in a few seconds the Savoia conies hurtling out of the harbourmouth and makes for Cape Martin. In coming back from there one notices that Janello takes his turns around the markboat wide, very much wider than did de Romanet. The third machine, piloted by Tece, is the last to start and no sooneris he in the air than it becomes evident that his engine is running badly. Tece cruises around for a few minutes inthe hope, evidently, of the engine picking-up, but matters seem to go from bad to worse and he has to give up and returnto port. This leaves only de Romanet and Janello in the •;••--" ; - - "• "Flight" Copyrigh* AT MONACO : de Romanet, on the Spad, winning the speed race. Inset : The machine getting off at the start of the race ^. 492
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