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o’s: againes will nor off Bat-it any re-wes at was aoatherig hadmorn-nry of leswig-rinoess otored d went yacht n visit Lied atoi press walk-in the QueenL Prin-aed to ck by•red to 5 worePrinces borne dge to Railingt. To ;d, the shop streets borne, rincessrincess rincess ed to r visitI Prin-m presslER’SRussia, lanion i, and ister’s finally iperial Jeorge Wol-moon, make ?rince suite :n the party: at ajy the kmth-Doverv * 1 yesterdaynones toso many of the Picardy meadows resemble square boxes lined with green velvet with the lids taken off.CHURCH SPIRE AS GUIDE.Leblanc and Aubrun, with only a moderate!breeze to contend with, made light of their task. Before' five they brought out their Bleriot monoplanes, and conferred a whilo with Mamet, who also steers a Bleriot. Mamet, however, after three extraordinary escapesended by disabling his machine. He opes to cross to Amiens to-morrow. At five minutes past five Aubrun set out, and five minutes later Leblanc followed. Another tea minutes and Legagncux left also. He was not going directly to Amiens, but intended to make a halt at Vitry-eu-Artois to take luncheon with one of his friends. The hour had scarcely gone by after the announcement of the departures made at Amiens when Leblanc’s aeroplane came in sight. Some time before Mollien, on a biplane, bad set out to meet him. But Leblanc arrived alone. With him came tlierain, and after jumping down from his seat andgiving a contented cry of “ Ca marche!” or u All’s well ” the pilot helped to push his machine along to its new shed, and it was not until then that he allowed himself to bo questioned. “I had difficulty with the mist,” he said, “and for some time there was also a head wind to contend with, but with the compass, and then with the help of tho goldenVirgin on the church at Albert, 1 made a rapid and direct journey.”Aubrun, who was thirteen minutes behind Leblanc, was welcomed by his aged father. This was the first time that M. Aubrun pere had seen his son fly. The large crowd cheered the happy father and son as they walked away to take breakfast together. Aubrun had been somewhat astray, and had met the ram, which had troubled him considerably, but he also had recognised his routo by tho famous goldenVirgin which stands highPicardy. “ Not havingsuch a sight every day, I mado the best of it and examined the statue from near at hand, making several eirde9 round it. And, by the way—to chango the conversation—if you want to cure a cold, try aviation. I had a violentcold in tlio head when 1 loft, but with theflight and tho rain it has quite disappeared.” I.egagnoux arrived rather unexpectedly Jess than half an hour later. He had canceled his luncheon engagement on account of the rain, and had mado the flight without an intermediate descent.Legagnoux’s performance is a remarkable one. His machine is one of tho oldest Farinan biplanes now used, and was borrowed hy its pilot from Martinet, who had it for somo time., and destroyed it almost totally on three ocea-W 90sions, but managed to win two cross-oonntry flights on its wings. Tho hum was agreed to only two days before tho start of the competition. Hie machine was then at Marseilles, and it arrived at Issy only threo hours before Legagncux set out. Legagncux himself wastho first to recognise that ho could not rivaltho Bleriot monoplanes in point of speed, so ho derided to cm joy the circuit more as a tourist. In all ho has descended Jtj turns since leaving Paris, including fivo times on Saturday, when he used his aeroplane to make a cross-country visit to Mamet’s machine. He is convinced that the aeroplane will soon be used as frequently as the motor car is used to-day.above the plains ofthe occasion to seeBLACKPOOL CARNIVAL.
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London Standard
London, Middlesex, GB
Tue, Aug 16, 1910
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