SECOND EDITION. £l0,000 FLYING RACE.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXV, Issue 13058, 28 April 1910, Page 7

SECOND EDITION. £lo,ooo FLYING RACE.

INTERESTING COMPETITION LONDON TO MANCHESTER. TREMENDOUS EXCITEMENT. Preparing for Flights. Press Association.—Telegraph.—Copyright, rteceivetl' April 2a. 9.50 a.m. LONDON. April 27. Paulham, Speldon, and White are at Wormwood Scrubbs preparing for flights.

Received April 28, 1.40 p.m. LONDON, April 27. Amidst tremendous excitement and enthusiasm, the contest for the .£IO,OOO prize offered by the Daily Mail for the first successful flight from London to Manchester was resumed this evening. Paulhan, who arrived from France a couple of days ago, started at 5.20, in me, presence of 6000 spectators, who cheered lustily. He passed Watford at 5.43, going steadily, at a fast pace. He reached an altitude of 9Ooft, and, going splendidly, reached Leighton Buzzard at 6.20, Bletchley 6.27, Wolverton 6.35. at an altitude of 500 ft, Roade 6.40. The biplane was still working smoothly, and the ■-w weather was favourable as it passed Rcadc at 6.40, Rugby was reached at 7.21, the Y altitude then being 900 ft. He descended safely at Lichfield at 9.10. White, the English aviator, who a couple of days ago made a splendid but unsuccessful effort to gain the prize, started at 6.33, his departure 'jiing witnessed by 20,000 people, who cheered frantically as the machine glided off. Ho passed Watford at 6.50, at a height of 200 ft. and, going fast and steadily, with a brisk wind behind him, passed over Leighton Buzzard at 7.20. Bletchley at 7.33. At this stage of the journey he reached a higher altitude than Panihan, and was going faster and straighten Wolverton was reached at 7.45, and he alighted a mile southward of Roade at 7.55, his actual time of flying being two minutes longer than Paulhans to this point.

RACE SUSPENDED OWING TO DARKNESS. Received April 28. 2.30 p.ra. LONDON, April 28. Darkness intervening, the flights were suspended.

Very few people have any idea of what an aeroplane flight, from London to Manchester really means (said a writer in the Daily Mail last year). When the flight is accomplished, as it will undoubtedly be in a very few months, possibly a few weeks, a fact will be established which all tiie flights in aerodromes only go some way in indicating—that the conquest of the air by hcavier-than-air flying machines has been finally achieved. This flight from London to Manchester is no easy task. First of all, with the present development of aeroplanes, it could not possibly be made in a straight line. Such au attempt would mean failure, inasmuch as the vaiator would have to cross hills of an alii, tude of at least 1600 feet, the rise to which after two-thirds of the journey had been accomplisched, he would find much, too rapid to be successfully accomplished. There can be no doubt that the selectiou of favourable route will be an all-import-ant part of the science of living long dis, tances in the near future. In the Loudon to Manchester contest, for example, there are various paths to be taken and'extraordinary difficulties to be avoided which would mean all the difference between success and failure on an aeroplane which had passed a reliability test for the distance under favourable conditions. This writer estimates that the length of the most favourable route is I>s to 190 miles.