PAULHAN'S VICTORY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 14359, 2 May 1910, Page 5

PAULHAN'S VICTORY.

THE FLIGHT TO MANCHESTER. DAILY MAIL'S > BIG PRIZE. By Telegraph. Association.—Copyright. , ".:■*"■ (Received May 1,'"6 'p.m.) London,' April 30. The prize ■of £10,000, presented by the Daily; Mail for the first flight from London to Manchester within 24 hours, with only two stops for petrol,; was. presented in a gold casket to M. Paulhan at a luncheon given by the Aero Club to-day. Mr. White was the recipient of a cup, valued at. 100 guineas by the Daily Mail, in recognition ;of his' splendid efforts on behalf, of Britain. The Daily 'Mail has offered £10,000. for another flight in Britain, the conditions of which are to be fixed later. ' • ' ■ ' (Received May 2, 1 a.m.) London, May l. It is understood that the Daily Mail's second £10,000 flight will be from London to Edinburgh and back. ' ' i*," OTHER BIG PRIZES. ;• The cables concerning the London to Manchester aeroplane flight did ; not make it clear whether M. Paulhan had left London, in the morning or the evening. Had' he departed at 5.20 a.m., as was assumed, he would have been behind the time al- = lowed. It : seems clear, since he has received "the prize, that the time he left London' was 5.20 p.m. Thus the gross time occupied in the journey (including stoppages) would be 12 hours 12 minutes,, and the actual flying time four < hours 13 minutes. The following are some of the most important? prizes -still. .op., offer . in England for aviators : — i' • *• Daily Mail's: second, prize of £10,000 for aeroplane, flight* (conditions to 'bei arranged). Daily Mail's prize for aviator flying the greatest distance before August 15, 1910—£1000. ': / .' ' I Baron de Forest's prize for first English aviator to fly the Channel with a British j aeroplane, £2000; to be increased,to£4ooo J if the Channel is crossed in less time than ; M. Bleriot's record. ''V .... ■".'* Sir William Hartley's prize for a flight from Manchester to Liverpool, £1000. Prize of "£2OOO for flight from London to Manchester by a British-built aeroplane j with Antoinette engine. „.,..'! , j Lord Montagu's prize for a flight from London to Manchester, £1000, or £5 per mile for ©very mile covered by the aeroplane which 'does the longest , distance, | without touching the ground. Limit to be covered,.' 25 miles. ■'■■'./ ' • There an>, in addition, numerous other prizes of smaller amounts for aviation in England, a very long .list of prizes for aviation on the Continent. •- i.