"History repeats itself" is Jgood old "stock phrase justified by the fact that it is often: true. People who are a few years past their first quarter century can recount} recollections of the early days successful flying and there will be one outstanding incident in their minds. A big money prize had been offered for the first non-stop ight across the English Channel, for which many tried and failed Another competitor came along! and made preparations on a vast scale, 80 that half the civilized world was talking about him, and strangely enough no one seemed to be disappointed when every day] for several weeks he had another excuse to offer for not making the flight. Then, early one morns, he was hurriedly pulled from is ed just in time to sce a tiny]
ok well over the Chane). Un-lown and unheralded, and wi out any preparations, "M. Bleriot had come along and crossed at his first attempt.
It appears not unlikely that} just such another feat, only on vastly bigger seals, is to be performed by M. Peltier d'Oisy. Whilst the cables daily were giving long accounts of the prepara. tons made, fo, enable. varices of aviators to fly round the world, suddenly came a. message to the effect that M. d'Oisy, hitherto unknown to the world at large, at short notice and without) any preparations, had started off ona similar journey. We are indebted to M. Pierre Sennet for the following details regarding M. @Oisy's machine:—
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