PARIS TO LONDON FLIGHT.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 899, 19 August 1910, Page 5

PARIS TO LONDON FLIGHT.

BEGINNER'S DARING ATTEMPT

: REACHES DEAL AND RESTS. y COVERS OVER 170 MILES. By Tdograph—Press Association—Copyright (Rec;. August 18, 11.20 p.m.) . London, August 18. A brilliant attempt to fly from Paris to London ihas been matlo by M. Moissant,''an aviator who only learnt to fly a month ago, and who had only made five previous ascents.

M. Moissant; mounted on a Bleriot monoplane fitted with a Gnome motor, and accompanied •'- by M. Filieux, a mechanic, flew from Paris to Amiens, a distance of about 70 miles, then on to Calais, another stretch of 80 miles. From Calais he flew across tho Channel to Deal, on the Kentish coast, a little to the north of Dover, and twenty : five ' miles oversea from Calais. Only two stops were made during the journey. ; ' M. Moissant is .now resting at Deal, and will continue his flight to the Crystal Palace, London, to-day, a further flight of about 45 miles.

The total distance covered so far, as the crow flies, is: between 170 and 180 miles.. . Mi Moissant is 35 years of age, aim was born at Chicago. He wore a layei of. Japanese: paper over his clothes as a protection". from the cold. The intrepid aviator had no knowledge of the country over which he flew,. and steered his course.by the aid of a compass and maps. ''■■■

' The wind thrice caught the aeroplane and. threatened to capsize it: It was sucked down several ,hundred feet .before it was righted. " Mr. Latham was also coming to London, butvhis machine was wrecked in a tree at Amiens. A FRENCH FEAT. ■ LONG CIRCULAR FLIGHT. ' : '. Paris, August 17. M. Le Blanc, the well-known aviator, won the prize of .fiOOO sterling given by the newspaper • "Le Matin" for a circular flight from.Paris, to■ Troyes, Nancy, Charleville, Douai, Amiens, and back to Paris. .■."■.. ',

11. Le Blanc made five stops, his.actual time in the air being twelve hours, the distance covered being 489 miles.

' A huge, crowd gave him <an - ovation when he alighted at Issy-les-Moulineaux, a of Paris.