IN THE AIR.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 10441, 29 April 1910, Page 4

IN THE AIR.

FROM LONDON TOWARDS MANCHESTER, [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.] (Per Press Association.) Received April 2S, at 1.40 p.m. London, April 28. Panlhan started at 5,20 and entered London for Manchester direct. Six thousand people cheered him. He passed Watford at 5.48, going steadily and fast at an altitude of 900 ft. Leighton Buzzard he passed splendidly at 6.20, Bletchley at 6.27, Wolverton at 6.35 at an altitude of 500 ft, Roade at 6.40. At this time he 'was going smoothly, the Weather being favorable. He passed' Rugby at 7.21 at a'n altitudeof 900 ft:, and descended safely at Lichfield at 9.10. White started, at 6.33, twenty thousand people frantically cheering liim. He passed -Watford at 6.50 at a height of 200 ft., going/fast and steadily, with a brisk wind behind:' He passed Leighton Buzzard at : 7.20, Bletchley at 7.37. Flying higher than Panlhan and faster and straighter, he passed Wolverton at 7.45, and alighted a mile southward of Roade at 7.55. Received April 29, at 8.30 a.m. London, April 28. White left Roade in the darkness at 3.45, and was guided by. the searchlights on motorcars. His motor got out of gear and he was compelled finally to descend at Polesworth.

Pauihan slept at Lichfield, and in the early morning, hearing White was within 20 miles, feverishly tuned his aeroplane and started at dawn —4.9 a.m. He had. soon ascended 400 feet, but in a head wind made slow progress. He reached Stanton Bridge at 4.55, and thereafter" sometimes flew at the rate, of 60 miles an hour. Crewe was reached at 5.10, and he was over Manchester at a height of 500 feet at 5.32. He was greeted with wild cheering by a huge crowd, - and alighted with a graceful curve in the centre- of a' selected field.

His average speed was 47 miles. Panlhan's first words on alighting were: "I am very cold and yery happy." Paulhan states ' that the wind continually forced his aeroplane off the the route of the railway line, and sometimes he rose and fell 30 feet in the varying currents. Paulhan's spectators at Stafford obtained a brilliant view of Halley's comet with the naked eye. • White states that the high wind he ran into after he passed Rugby twisted his areroplane three times. Received April 29, at 12.40 p.m. London, April 28. White this evening resumed his journey towards Manchester, but he was caught in a storm and his aeroplane was damaged. Ho alighted at,; Lichfield and abandoned the attempt';