ÆROPLANE MEETING.
I'KOOIUMiRKAKIN'G FLIGHTS. Hy Cable. —Press Association. —CopyrigJ 1 Received 2.">, 10 ji.in. Paris, August i"). M. Illcriol. at Hhciiiw, beat Curti?" record liv 111 seconds. Other French 11i>th made nun; <ln ring evolutions. "THE EXTFATK.'' Received 25, 11 p.m. I'nris, August 2.">. A gathering of 100.000 people on Hi lihcinis aviation ground ovationod Pr; -idcnl Faillms, who received (leiier, French nnil the otlii'r British represent; lives, and all'aiily conversed with the.] I ninid cheers, upon the .entente.
Yesterday's rallies stilled Unit Bleriaf. .n :i 50-horsc-power monoplane, made a world's speed roeord by ■ covering 10 kilometres (about o'/ 4 statute miles) in S minntes 42 seconds. Curtiss, in a biplane. then lienl Ble:iot's perfonnanee by 7 seconds.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 174, 26 August 1909, Page 2
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118ÆROPLANE MEETING. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 174, 26 August 1909, Page 2
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