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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 378, 2 May 1910, Page 5

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PRIZE OF £IO,OOO HANDED OVER. WHITE'S EFFORTS ACKNOWLEDGED By Cable —Press Association—Copyright Received May 1. 5.5 p.m. London, April 30. The Daily Mail prize of £IO,OOO in a gold casket was presented to Paulhan at a lunch held uv the Aero Club. White was the recipient of a cup valued at 100 guineas given ov the Daily Mail in recognition of his splendid efforts on behalf of Britain. The Daily Mail filers £IO,OOO for another flight in Britain. DAILY MAIL'S £IO,OOO. Received May 2, 1.20 a.m. London, May 1. It is understood that the Daily Mail's £IO,OOO prize flight will be from London to Edinburgh and back. Very few people have any idea of what an aeroplane flight from London to Manchester really means (said a writer in the Daily Mail last year). When the flight is accomplished, as it will undoubtedly be in a very few months, possibly a few weeks, a fact will be established which all the flights in aerodromes only go some way in indicating—that the conquest of the air by heavier-than-air Hying machines has been finally achieved. This flight from London to Manchester is no easy task. First of all. with the present development of aeroplanes, it could not possibly be made in a straight line. Such an attempt would mean failure, inasmuch as the aviator 'would have to cross hills of an altitude of at least 1000 ft, the rise to which after two-thirds of the journey had 'been accomplished he would find much too rapid to be successfully accomplished. There can be no doubt that the selection of a favorable route will be an all-important part of the science of flying long distances in the near future. In the London to Manchester contest, for example, there are various paths to 'be taken and extraordinary difficulties to lie avoided which would ■ mean all the difference between success and failure on an aeroplane which had passed a reliability test for the distance under favorable conditions. This writer estimates that the length of the most favorable route is 185 to 100 miles.