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AUGUST 12. 1926 Concours dflvions BY THE TECHNICAL EDITOR. Orly, Monday August 9, 1926. TO-DAY is the first day of the French light 'plane competition which is being held at Orly, south of Paris, or rather the day •on which the machines have to be presented to the judges fully •erected. When we arrived on the aerodrome this morning the very excellent hangar in which the competition machines are housed was less than half full, only eight machines out of the 17 entered having arrived. Enquiries elicited the fact that the two Pander machines were not expected to turn up, while the two Italians were known to be on a train " some- where in France " and were " incessantly expected." The Albessard monoplane was not expected to be ready in time while the Caudron was out of the running, due, it was reported, to the refusal of the French Section Technique to grant the new 60 h.p. Salmson engine a provisional airworthiness cer- tificate. The Farman machine was also conspicuous by its absence, while it was thought that No. 17, the twin-engined •de Monge with Bugatti engines might turn up about two minutes before the hour of 3 p.m. set as the limit for the arrival of machines. Captain Broad's de Havilland " Moth " was another absentee, and as but two British machines have been entered it begins to look as if upon Mrs. Eliott-Lynn will devolve the duty of representing Great Britain. Inci- dentally the participation of a machine to be piloted by a British lady pilot has captured the imagination of the French to a quite surprising extent, and to-day one heard repeatedly the remark about this well-known British aviator : Elle est tres sport. A census of the hangar failed to reveal more than eight machines ready for the beginning of the competition, and as the de Monge had not put in an appearance at 3 p.m., that is actually the number of competitors left to start the eliminating trials at 8 a.m. to-morrow morning. The Machines No. 1, the de Havilland " Moth " entered and to be flown by Mrs. Eliott-Lynn, carries the registration letters G-EBKT. The machine is already well known to our readers. Suffice it to say that in the competition the machine will carry a certain amount of extra load in the form of two parachutes, for the carriage of which marks are awarded. [" FLIGHT " Photographs THE FRENCH LIGHT PLANE COMPETITION AT ORLY : On the left is seen the French ex-Under-Secretary for Air, M. Laurent Eynac, with M. Carlier, introducing the Czechoslovak pilots. On the right, MM. Carlier, Fortant, and Col. Goys discuss the Czechoslovak entries. 489
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