The preliminary trials before the air-race for the Gordon-Bennett Cup took place on Saturday. The celsior" says that the machines which qualified, showed, side by side with perfect elegance of line and speed, controllability, the skill of M. Sach Lecointe will put to good account in the "banking' which" the circular course, fixed, demands. The two Nieuports of MIN. Sach-Lecointe and Kirsh on Saturday proved their undeniable superiority over their French rivals, appearing to attain the greatest speed possible on such a cireuit—French Wireless.
New York, Sept. 26.
An Associated Press telegram from Etampes states that Mr. Roland Rohlfs, the well-known American airman, who was an on-trant for the Gordon Bennett International Aviation Cup race which is being held in France, was seriously injured this evening. His machine crashed during a practice Paris, Sept. 28.
The only pilot to complete the course for the Gordon-Bennett Cup for International Aviation, says the Temps." was M. Sach (France), piloting a aeroplane. He finished in 1 hr. 6 min. 38 see. and will be the winner of the Cup unless the British airman, Mr. Raynham, who has until 6 o'clock this evening to try his chance, complete the course in shorter time.—French Wireless.
Paris, Sept. 29.
Yesterday's contest for the Gordon Bennett Cup for International Aviation in which the best American, British and French pilots competed, resulted in a_ victory for the French airman, M. Sach Lecointe, flying a 300 H.P. Nieuport aeroplane. He completed tae 300-kilometre course in 1 hr. 6 min. 28 sec. M. de Romanet, another French airman, had to make a forced landing and the remaining} competitors could not complete the 300 kilometres. The American airman. Mr. Schroeur. (1), had to abandon the contest after a quarter of an hour's flight as great flames were issuing from his exhaust and' he feared that his machine would} catch fire.
The result of the race is a splendid triumph for French aviation, to which the Gordon Bennett Cup is now secured, it shows not only the power of the French machines and the skill of the French pilots but also the perfect finish of French aeroplane eonstruction.—French Wireless.
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