GREAT AERIAL FEAT.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 804, 29 April 1910, Page 5

GREAT AERIAL FEAT.

TO MANCHESTER.

FRENCHMAN GAINS THE COVETED

HONOUR.

"DAILY MAIL" COMPETITION.

■Iv_Teieeraph—Press Association-CJopyriirht .'Loridon, April 27. •M. Paulhan, the ;■ French biplanist, started at 5.20 p!m. on his flight lor tho "Daily Mail" ,£lo,ouo prize (from London to, Manchester with not more than two stops, • distance 170 miles as the. crowj flies). A cheering crowd of three thousand persons 1 witnessed the start,He passed Watford at 5.48, his machine sailing steadily and. fast through the air at an altitude'of Uiue hundred feet, Leightoh Buzzard was passed over at 6.20,' the machine moving splendidly; at 6.27 Blfltchley was left behind,' at 6.35 WolVerton was. underneath (the altitude of the biplane, being 500 feet), and Roade was reached at 6.40, everything still. going smoothly. The'weather was favourable. 'At an altitude of 900 • feet : the aeronaut looked down at Rugby—the hour being 7.2 l—and descended safely at Lichfield (near' Birmingham) at 9.10 ,(? S. 10). .. Mr.- White,, who last week attempted to aeroplane from London to Manchester in twenty-four hours or under, started at 6.35 b'olock in a'Farman- biplane with a monoplane tail. His departure was witnessed by 20,000 people,. who cheered frantically. ..He passed Watford, at .6.50, at a height of 200 feet,-travelling fast and steadily with a brisk wind behind him. Leighton Buzzard was reached at 7.20, Bletchley at .7.37- '(the biplane being higher, and going faster, and straighter than that of M. Paulhan),; and Wolverton at 7.45. The aeronaut, at -7.55, alighted a mile south, of Roade'. Darkness/suspended the -flights.. .'; (Rec. April 28, 11.5 p.m.) , . London; April 28. A correction: White re-started from Roade at -2.50, passed Rugby at 3JO, and alighted at Poiesworth.

A KEEN COMPETITION. , ■:- HOW THE WINNEE STOLE A y; :';.; : ..MARCH.;. .•,';■' ',: ,' (Eec. April 29, 0.5, a.m.) London, April 28..' White descended -in difficulties at Polesworth., '■ ../,.- ; . '. - Paulhan/passed Stafford at i.ifl, and reached Manchester at 5.30. White had abandoned the idea of, the flight, owing to a'high, gusty wind, whenhe. learned by telephone'■'• that Paulhan had stolen a' inarch, and had started. -. ■White; hastily, and. ! without- taking food,: followed at 1 the earliest possible moment. . His daring-'in entering.' the competition thus handicapped was loudly cheered.'' : Meanwhile, Paulhan had a long'lead, and White was.unable, to .'make as great progress, before \ darkness , set - in; '.■ .Paulhan': restarted at i. a.m.