to be one of the very best of Bleriot drivers; he was thefirst man to rise 2,000 metres into the air (last July, at Lanark)and this feat has since then been exceeded by but four otheraviators. If he has the use of a 100 H. P. Bleriot, he should prove avaluable recruit in the Cup-defending camp.… … MONOPLANE. Clifford B Harmon, the millionaire amateur, also has twomachines; his old Henry Farman—Paulhans Los Angeles record-breaker—has been almost entirely renovated since his Bostonaccident, and he is having built a monoplane to carry his two50 H. P. Gnome motors harnessed together; he is also…
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