RIVALRY IN FRANCE

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 2, 2 July 1926, Page 7

RIVALRY IN FRANCE

(Australian-New Zealand Cable Assn.) PABIS, Ist July.

Several competitors will' shortly try to beat tho brothers Arraehard's new record for a non-stop flight. Captain Le Maitre, who accompanied the Arrachards, sets out to-morrow for Senegal, and Captain Girier for Western. Bussia. Captain Challe will later fly to central Europe. It is significant that all are using different motors. This is due to the Air Ministry's desire to stimulate rivalry in the aeroplane; motor industry.

The French aviators, Arrachard and Carol, in August last, flew round Europe, via Constantinople, Moscow, and Copenhagen, 4600 miles in three days. Tho actual distance was 4625 miles and tho flying time 38hr 35min. The airmen left the Paris aerodrome Le Bourge at 4.45 a.m., 10th August,! reached Belgrade at 12.45, lunching there, and Constantinople at 6 p.m. They left Constantinople at 3 a.m. on 11th August, reached Bucharest at 7 a.m., and had breakfast and stayed three hours. From Bucharest to Moscow, 937 i miles, the journey was completed in ;Bhr 15min.' Moscow was left at 5 a.m. on 12th August. Warsaw was reached at 5.55 a.m., and Copenhagen, after a flight of 500 miles, in 4 hours. From Copenhagen to Paris, 678| miles, the distance was covered in shr 40min. The aerial voyagers reached Paris at 9.17 p.m. on 12th August. The mafchine was a two-seater Potez biplane with a 450 h.p. Lorraino-Dietrict engine. . :