The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1910-08-26
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Deal. England. With every pros.
pect Of success In completing the
aerial trip from Paris to London
which, since the crossing Of the Eng
| lish channel by Bleriot and others has
been the great aim of the bird men.
Neissant, the young Chicago aviator,
descended near here, having accom-.
plished the flight from Paris to Calais
and the journey across the channel to
Deal with an ease and brilliancy rarely
surpassed. y
Moissant, in his trip across the chan
mel, carried q passenger, his macha-
nician, Albert, making the cross-chan.
mel fight not merely an incident in the
longer Paris-Journey but an achieve
ment which surpasses the feats of
Bleriot, De Lesseps and the unfortu-
nate Rolls, whose machines were bur.
dened only with their pilots In cross
ing the straits.
He prepared at once to continue the
trip to London, the competition of
which will bring him the cup and prize
offered by London newspaper for
the course and the proceeds of the sub
scription raised in England for Ora
ham q. White, which the unsuccessful
competitor in the ondon-Manchester
flight generously offered as a prize for
the Paris to London competition.
Hubert Latham, who started from
Issy, q suburb of Paris, to race Mois-
SAINT to London, had series of unfor.
tunate accidents, the last at Amiens,
eliminating in the wrecking of his
machine as he was preparing to re-
sumo the fight. Latham escaped un-
hurt but is out Of the race.
Flies Channel In Strong Breeze.
The last stage of Moissant's fight,
the trip across the channel, was &C.
complished in a strong channel breeze,
the wind being so high that expert
enced aviators looked upon the start
as foolish. It was such wind as re-
peatedly deferred Beriot, Latham and
other aviators from attempting the
passage of the straits and corresponds
ents who had witnessed the earlier at.
tempts to cross the channel confident
ly wired their papers that Moissant
would not start before evening, when
the wind was expected to fall.
Nevertheless, as soon as he could ar.
range for French torpedo boat to fol
low him across the channel, Moissant
launched his aeroplane from the cliffs
near Calais and started for the English
shore. The breeze was still strong
and the monoplane, which like other
'Bleriot machines appeared to specta.
tors less steady in the air than the
more stable and heavier biplane,
pitched and rolled so dangerously that
spectators believed it in imminent dan.
ger.
Moissant, however, managed his ma.
chinery with the greatest skill and as
the Bleriot with its guide passed out
of the zone of greatest danger near
the shore seemed to steady his ma.
chine, and as she passed out of sight
of Calais was, according to the reports
received here, flying we'll at an alti.
tude of about 500 feet. He was ex
pected to land at Dover but was driv.
en- few miles north and made the
coast near Deal, passing over Walmer
Castle and the marine barracks at
11:15 a.. m. He was unable to con
tinue the journey to London so numbed
was he by the cold during the cross
ing of the channel from Calais and he
landed near Tilmanstone, short dis
lance from Deal.
The trip from Calais to Tilmanstone
occupied approximately 81 minutes.
The two-man fight from France to
England was the more astonishing fol-
it was only a month ago that Moissant
learned to fly, and he made SO few
| flights and was SO little known among
aviators that even his nationality was
not disclosed. He was reputed to be
a Spaniard and it was only when he
landed in England that 1t was revealed
that he is a young Chicago architect.
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