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FLIGHT, MAY 31, 1934 COUPE DEUTSCH 1st, Amo^ix on Caudron- Renault, 241-7 m.p.h. 2nd, Massotte on Caudron- Regnier, 224-3 m.p.h. 3rd, Monville on Caudron- Renault, 209'4 m.p.h. CHARTRES Tarmrypoin AERODROME e&ONCE \ Scale 0 /. t~~ QAUonnes y Scale 0 5 Ouavitte — __ " 5 10 10 15 Auttono / 15 20 25 20 Miles ETAMPESyj) «• MONDESIR /AERODROME 30 Km. ILOTING a Caudron low-wing cantilever monoplane, 1934 type, equipped with a new 300-h.p. Renault six-cylinder, in-line, inverted, air-cooled, direct- drive engine, Maurice Arnoux won the Deutsch de la Meurthe Race on Sunday last. It consisted of a distance of 2 000 km. (1,242 miles), which was divided into two sec- tions of 1 000 km. (621.37 miles) each, with an hour's interval between them. The course was a triangular one -of 100 km. (62.12 miles), beginning and ending at the Etampes-Mondesir Aerodrome. Arnoux covered the 2 000 km. in 5 hr. 8 min. 31 sec, at an average speed of 389 k:m./hr. (241.7 m.p.h.) Louis Mas- sotte finished second in 5 hr. 32 min. 28 sec, having flown at 361 km./hr. (224.3 m.p.h.). He also piloted a Caudron plane, but of 1933 construc- tion, entered by the Regnier Engine Co. and equipped with a 217-h.p. Reg- nier six-cylinder, in-line, inverted, air- cooled, direct-drive engine. A second Caudron entry, piloted by Albert Mon- ville, and equipped also with a new Renault six-cylinder engine, came in third, having covered the course in 5 hr. 51 min. 52 sec, at an average speed of 337 km./hr. (209.4 m.p.h.). All these machines thus beat the re- cord of 323 km./hr. (201 "m.p.h.) for the 2 000 km. made at the Deutsch Cup Race last year by Georges Detre on a Potez plane, equipped with a 270- h.p. Potez air-cooled radial engine. Favoured by fine weather, and with reports that new speed records for light planes would probably be estab- lished, a large crowd was in attend- ance, including numerous high aviation officials, constructors, foreign attaches, etc. The Air Minister, General Denain, was among the early arrivals, flying over from Villacoublay in a Dewoi- tine three-engined colonial type trans- port cabin monoplane. The President of the Republic, Mr. Albert Lebrun, also attended the race in the afternoon, coming from Paris by car, but returning later with General Denain in the Dewoitine. Mile. Suzanne Deutsch de la Meurthe, the donor of the Cup, was likewise a prominent THE 1934 WINNER : Maurice Arnoux, who was in the Deutsch Cup Race last year, but whom a broken undercarriage then prevented from completing the race. arrival, and remained on the aerodrome the entire day.The race was started a few minutes after 9 a.m. by Chief Engineer Louis Hirschauer. Assistant Director ofCommercial Aviation in the Air Ministry. Georges Detre, winner of the Deutsch Cup last year, piloting the Poteztype 53-2 plane, was the first to take off. His engine having a fixed-pitch propeller, Detre required practicallythe whole length of the field, some 1 000 m., in which to take off. He made eight circuits of the 100-km. coursein good style, and then a defective oil , pipe forced him to land and abandonthe race. Lemoine, flying the Potez type 53-3,was the next to take off. This he did in about one-half the distance requiredby Detre, as his engine had a variable- pitch propeller. He made the firstten circuits of the course, comprising the first section of the race, at anaverage speed of 368 km./hr. (228.7 m.p.h.). When, however, Lemoinetried to start in the afternoon for the second section of the race, he couldnot get his variable-pitch propeller to remain in the low-pitch position de-sired for starting. As he was also somewhat affected by the exhaustgases from the engine, Lemoine de- cided to abandon the race. Massotte, piloting the Regnier-Caudron machine, was the next to take off. His average speed was 365km./hr. (226.8 m.p.h.) for the first ten circuits. Delmotte was the firstof the Caudron pilots to get away, which he did in good style, and hemade some beautiful steeply-banked turns as he rounded the pylon in frontof the judges at the Airport. He flew somewhat lower than the other pilots,and made the excellent average of 387 km./hr. (240.5 m.p.h.) for thefirst ten rounds of the course in the morning. On the 19th turn of thecourse in the afternoon, when within about 50 km. (31 miles) of the finish-ing line, engine trouble developed, and Delmotte was forced to land and abandon the race. He landed without physicalinjury to himself. BRINGING IN THE WINNER : The Caudron C.460 is fitted with a sup in-line air-cooled engine of about 310 h.p. 531 o-c>under 8
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