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1931
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FLIGHT, JULY 17, 1931 M Jacques Dumesnil, the Air Minister, broadcasts from the Judges' Stand. THE CLERMONT-FERRAND MEETING FAVOURED by perfect weather, the Seventh AnnualRally and the Eleventh Annual Meeting of theAero Club of Auvergne took place at the AulnatAerodrome, just outside Clermont-Ferrand, on Saturday and Sunday. July 4 and 5 last. Planes flew to Clermont-Ferrand on the opening dayfrom all parts of France as well as from several foreign countries. A large number of machines arrived partici-pating in the Rally, while many others made the trip as individual tourists. A number of speed and efficiency con-tests were held, some of them being fixtures for several years past, for which trophies and cash prizes were offered.Three leading stunt flyers also took part in the meeting and a spirited international contest developed betweenPierre Lemoigne, one of the leading French aerobatic aces, Georges Lepreux, a young pupil of Marcel Doret, andDr. Hans Gullman, who ranks among the best stunt flyers in Germany. There was a refreshing snap and go to theprogramme, which was rounded out by balloon punching, parachute jumping, etc. An additional interest was alsoadded to the meeting by the presence of the Air Minister, Mr. Jacques Louis Dumesnil, and his staff, and Mr. EtienneRiche, the Under-Secretary of State for Air (Assistant Air Minister), all of whom arrived from Paris by plane. The meeting itself took place on the Sunday and waspreceded, as usual, the day before, by the International Rally, in which some 56 planes participated. The entriesincluded Belgian, Swiss and German machines in addition to the French tourist planes. The aim of the Rally wasto permit the pilots to make as long flights as possible in a given period of 8 hr., between the airports where they" took-off " and Clermont-Ferrand, while taking into account the number of persons transported in comparisonwith the h.p. of the motors of their planes. The contest L2was run under the formula —, in which the points A WINNER: The Morane " Parasol" (230 h.p. Salmson) used by the winning pair in the Marquise de Sevigne Cup — Efficiency Competition. awarded the contestants were calculated on the basis ofL representing the distance flown in kilometres, W repre- senting the h.p. of the motor per person aboard the plane.This Rally was won by John Portal, a pilot in the Farman Air Service, who flew a Farman 190 six-seater ANOTHER WINNER: The D.H. "Gipsy Moth" ofLouis Weber, Director of Geneva Airport, who won the George Dreyfus Speed Race. monoplane equipped with 230-h.p. Gnome and Rhone" Titan " motor. His itinerary was Paris—Brussels— Amsterdam—Brussels—Amsterdam—Brussels—Paris—Cler-mont-Ferrand, making 1,589 km. (1,000 miles) in all. There were seven persons aboard his plane.Leon Kammacker, a well-known Swiss pilot, representing the Aero Club of Switzerland and flying a De Havilland" Puss Moth," equipped with an inverted " Gipsy " en- gine, finished second. The plane had three persons onboard and flew 1,619 km. (1,002 miles). The Dewoitine D.35 plane, equipped with a 250-h.p.Wright Hispano engine, piloted by George Delage, and having Maurice Bellonte and Raymond Coty on board,together with four other persons, finished third, having flown 1,573 km. (997 miles). The eliminatory competitions for the fifth annual " Mar-quise de Sevigne Cup " were also held Saturday afternoon. This handsome trophy has been offered to be competed foreach year at the Clermont-Ferrand meeting by reserve pilots regularly enrolled in the various training centres through-out France. The coniest consists of a rally of " patrols," consisting of two planes of the same type, manned byreserve pilots, flying to Clermont-Ferrand over a course taking about 4| hr. from their point of departure. Each" patrol " is carefully timed, and the training centre of the one showing the greatest regularity is awarded the trophyfor one year. Eighteen patrols (36 planes), consisting mostly of MoraneSaulnier 191 's, parasol type, took part, and their arrival at the Aulnat Aerodrome made a pretty sight as they flewacross the finishing line in pairs, one after the other. The contest was won by a " patrol " from the AngersTraining Centre, with one from the Lyons Training Centre 697
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