Gordon Bennett Trophy (aeroplanes)
1909

Gordon Bennett Trophy (aeroplanes)

Section Title: 1909
Table Section Text: None

Nationality	Pilot	Aircraft Type	Position	Time	Speed	Notes

France	Louis Blériot	Blériot XII	Second	15 min 56.2 s	75.31 km/h (46.80 mph)

France	Hubert Latham	Antoinette VII	Third	17 min 32 s	68.44 km/h (42.53 mph)

France	Eugène Lefebvre	Wright Model A	Fourth	20 min 47.6 s	57.71 km/h (35.86 mph)

United Kingdom	George Bertram Cockburn	Farman III	Did not finish course

United States	Glenn Curtiss	Curtiss No. 2	First	15 min 50.4 s	75.74 km/h (47.06 mph)

Sentence(s)

Blériot finished second place with a time of 15 minutes and 56.2 seconds, 5.8 seconds more than Curtiss.

final_sentence: Blériot finished second place with a time of 15 minutes and 56.2 seconds, 5.8 seconds more than Curtiss.