Famous airmen and their equipment [electronic resource] : with some notes on first-aid in emergencies (1912)
Burroughs Wellcome and Company · London : Burroughs Wellcome · leaf 12
tes. He competed in the Daily Mail ,£10,000 Air Race in 1911,and completed the 1010 miles flight round Great Britain in 23 hrs. 37 min.54 sec. In Jan_. 1912 he attained a speed of 105^ miles per hour—a worldsrecord. He flies a Morane-Borel monoplane, and carries a TabloidFirst-Aid. The photograph… … 12 THE EVOLUTION OF F LIG HT amid the wildest excitement, and landed, after someremarkable adventures, at Ware. A stone with a longinscription still marks the spot of his descent. A very large balloon, filled with 85,000 feet ofgas, took up three menfrom the Vauxhall Gardenson November 7,1785;…
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