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1922
1922 - 0535.PDF
SEPTEMBER 14, 1922 Hy AIRfSMS FROM T) Fomw/ms WHEN compared with the experiences and the distances achieved recently by competitors in the Gordon-Bennett Balloon Race, the following extract from The Times of August 1, 1822—one hundred years ago—is an interesting and striking contrast :— " Cheltenham, Tuesday, July 30.—This afternoon at half- past three o'clock, Mr. Green, the aeronaut, with a gentleman numed Griffith, made an ascent with a large and very beautiful balloon, from a yard at the back of the London Hotel in this town, amidst a more numerous assemblage of nobility, gentry, and fashionables, than was ever witnessed'in this" place on any former occasion. The weather was very favourable, and by three o'clock the balloon was filled, and displayed a most delightful transparent globe, quartered in alternate colours of blue, red. and yellow, in size beyond anything ever before seen in England. At half-past 3 o'clock the gentlemen entered A NEW ALL-STEEL AEROPLANE : Three photographs of the Boulton and Paul " Bolton " (Series number P. 15). The Air Ministry has sanctioned publication of these photographs, but no information relating to the machine may be given beyond such details as are disclosed in the photographs. From these it will be seen that the machine is similar, in general lines, to the Boulton and Paul " Bourges," but the detail construction is, of course, quite different. The power plant, it will be seen, consists of two Napier " Lion " engines. 535
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