Aërial Navigation: A Popular Treatise on the Growth of Air Craft and on Aëronautical MeteorologyZahm, Albert Francis
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Aërial Navigation: A Popular Treatise on the Growth of Air Craft and on Aëronautical Meteorology
Zahm, Albert Francis
Aeronautics; Meteorology
Among the many brilliant flights of that memorable year of strenuous
piloting will long be remembered the voyage of the Hon. C. S. Rolls to
Calais and return without landing, and that of Mr. Sopwith, already
recounted; the splendid flight of Mr. Clifford B. Harmon in his Farman
biplane from Mineola, Long Island, to a small rounded island before
his house on the Connecticut shore, for the trophy offered by _Country
Life_ to the first person who should fly across Long Island Sound;
Henri Farman’s flight of December 18th, for the Michelin long-distance
prize, covering 288 miles, and establishing a new endurance record of
8 hours 23 minutes; Mlle. Helene Dutrieu’s flight of December 21st,
for the Coupe Femina, covering 103¾ miles in 2 hours and 35 minutes
in a Farman biplane. Interesting, too, were the first attempt to fly
from Paris to Brussels with a passenger, when Mahieu and Manihé on
starting were brought to bay by a vicious dog which violently attacked
the propeller and was cut in two; and when Loridan and Fay landed on a
tree, from which they descended by a ladder. After this followed the
glorious voyage of Henri Wijnmalen, the youthful and many-sided Dutch
sport, for the prize of 150,000 francs offered by the Automobile Club
of France for the quickest aëroplane trip not exceeding 36 hours, with
a passenger from Paris to Brussels and return. This voyage of some
320 miles was valiantly accomplished by Wijnmalen and his companion
Dufour, in a day and a half, of 13.2 effective hours, and in weather
for the most part windy or tempestuous. Finally to the foregoing list
of splendid achievements must be added the glorious voyage of John
Moisant, who in August flew with a passenger, by compass, from Paris to
London, though he had never been over the route before and had only
just learned to use an aëroplane.
The International Aviation Tournament of 1910, held at Belmont Park,
Long Island, October 22d to 31st, was the most prominent and eventful
meet of the year, and the second of its kind in history, as the
meeting of the preceding year at Rheims was the first. The present
meet was conducted by the Aëro Corporation, Limited, of New York,
under the auspices and official sanction of the Aëro Club of America,
representing the Federation Aëronautique Internationale.
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