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Abstract

ON Saturday last, July 22, nineteen aëroplanes started I from Brooklands, near Weybridge, in a race for which a: prize of 10.000l. was offered by The Daily Mail. The 1 specified route was a circuit of Great Britain, with a t number of landing-places, or control stations, at each of ! which a descent had to be made; these places, with their distances in miles from one another, were:—Brooklands to Hendon, 20; Hendon to Harrogate, 182; Harrogate to Newcastle, 68; Newcastle to Edinburgh, 93; Edinburgh to Stirling, 31; Stirling to Glasgow, 32; Glasgow to Carlisle, 86; Carlisle to Manchester, 103; Manchester to Bristol, 141; Bristol to Exeter, 65; Exeter to Salisbury Plain, 83; Salisbury Plain to Brighton, 76; Brighton to Brooklands, 40; total distance, 1010 miles. The first section of the race was covered by J. Ve'drines in 19m. 48s., and ten other airmen accomplished the journey in less than half an hour. On Monday morning the following machines and pilots started from Hendon for Edinburgh, with official control descents at Harrogate and Newcastle:—J. Ve'drines, Morane-Borel monoplane; Lieut. Conneau (“Beaumont”), BleYiot monoplane; J. Valentine, Deperdussin monoplane; G. W. Hamel, BleViot mono-j plane; S. F. Cody, Cody biplane; H. J. D. Astley, Birdling j monoplane; C. Howard Pixton, Bristol biplane; Lieut. I R. A. Cammell, R.E., Ble'riot monoplane; O. de Monta-lent, Breguet biplane; C. T. Weymann, Nieuport monoplane; C. P. Pizey, Bristol biplane; G. Blanchet, Breguet biplane; B. C. Hucks, Blackburn monoplane; Lieut. H. Bier (and passenger), Etrich monoplane; Lieut. H. R. P. Reynolds, R.E., Howard Wright biplane; E. Audemars, BleViot monoplane.