AVIATION MATCH.
BETWEEN TWO INVENTORY FOR FIVE THUSAND PQUNDS. •Jnited Press Association-By Electric Telegraph Copyright. Received August 24, 8.30 a m. LONDON, Auugst 23.
Messrs Bleriot and Latham, both of whom recently endeavoured, the former successfully, to cross the English Channel in aeroplanes, are arranging to hold an aviation match in London at the end of September, for five thousand pounds.
WORLD'S SPEED RECORD,
Received August 24, 10.50 p.m. PARIS, August 24
After beating altitude records by attaining a height of 1,500 metres, the French dirigible Clement Boyard in a trial trip before delivery to Russia, was descending at Maisonalaffitte, when it was caught in a squall and struck a tree. The car fell into the Seine, but the four occupants swam safely ashore. In the trials at Rheims, M. Paudhate, in a Voison biplane covered 34| miles in 56 minutes. M. Bleriot, in a 50 horse-power monoplane, made a world's speed record, covering 10 kilometres in 8 minutes 42 seconds. M. Curtess, in a biplane, then beat-this record by 7 'seconds. The British delegates, headed by General French, are expected to arrive at Kheims to-day.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9577, 25 August 1909, Page 5
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186AVIATION MATCH. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9577, 25 August 1909, Page 5
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