_May 23, 1909_--Henri Rougier, with biplane, at Juvissy, flies 18.6 miles (30 kilometres). _May 30, 1909_--Bleriot, with monoplane at Issy, flies 8.7 miles. _June 5, 1909_--Latham, with monoplane, at Chalons, flies for 1 hour 7 minutes and 37 seconds in wind and rain. _June 6, 1909_--Latham, with monoplane, at Juvissy, flies 10 miles across country. _June 12, 1909_--Latham, with monoplane, at Juvissy, flies 30 miles in 39 minutes, winning the Goupy prize. _June 12, 1909_--Delagrange, with biplane, at Juvissy, makes cross country flight of 3.7 miles. _June 12, 1909_--Bleriot, with monoplane, at Juvissy, flies 984 feet, with two passengers--Santos-Dumont and Fournier. _June 13 1909_--Ferber, with Voisin biplane, at Juvissy, flies 3.1 miles in 5 minutes and 30 seconds. _June 19, 1909_--Santos-Dumont, with monoplane, at Issy, makes several flights. _July 4, 1909_--Roger Sommer with biplane, at Chalons, flies 3.75 miles on Farman machine. _July 10, 1909_--Louis Paulhan, with biplane, at Douai, France, makes his first flight--1.25 miles. _July 13, 1909_--Curtiss, with biplane, at Mineola, L. I., flies 1.5 miles in 3 minutes. _July 13, 1909_--Bleriot, with monoplane, at Mondesir, makes a flight of 26 miles across country in 44 minutes and 30 seconds. _July 15, 1909_--Paulhan with biplane, at Douai, flies for 1 minute and 17 seconds, soaring to an altitude of 357 feet. _July 17, 1909_--Orville Wright, with biplane, at Fort Myer, flies 16 minutes and 40 seconds, at a speed of 40 miles an hour. _July 17, 1909_--Curtiss, with biplane, at Mineola, makes 15 miles in 21 minutes, describing circles in both directions, as in the figure 8. _July 18, 1909_--Curtiss, with biplane, at Hempstead Plains, L. I., flies 29½ miles in 52 minutes and 30 seconds, a flight exceeded only by the Wrights, in America, and Bleriot, Latham, and Paulhan, in Europe. _July 18, 1909_--Farman, with biplane, at Chalons, flies for 1 hour and 23 minutes, making his first long flight. _July 18, 1909_--Sommer, with biplane, at Chalons, makes his longest flight--1 hour and 40 minutes. _July 19, 1909_--Latham, with monoplane, at Calais, France, makes his first attempt to cross the Channel to Dover. He flies 11 miles, and then his machine falls into the sea. _July 19, 1909_--Paulhan, with biplane, at Douai, makes a cross-country flight of 12.1 miles in 22 minutes and 53 seconds. _July 20, 1909_--Orville Wright, with biplane, at Fort Myer, flies 1 hour and 20 minutes. _July 21, 1909_--Orville Wright, with biplane, at Fort Myer, flies 1 hour and 29 minutes. _July 21, 1909_--E. Lefebvre, with biplane, at La Haye, France, flies 2 miles. _July 21, 1909_--S. F. Cody, with biplane, at Aldershot, flies 4 miles.