New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-22
FLIGHT ACROSS CHANNEL
Count Jacques de Lesseps DupIi-
Gates BIeriot'S Feat.
TRIP MADE IN so MINUTES
Aeronaut Forced to Fly High
Owing to Fog-Hopes to Make
Return Voyage To- day.

Dover, May 21..For the second time
within year the English Channel was
crossed to-day by an aeroplane, and
again the honor remains with France.
Count Jacques de Lesseps. a grandson
OF the late Ferdinand de Lesseps, the cell
ebrated French engineer, driving a So
horsepower monoplane OF the same model
as that with which Louis Bleriot first
conquered the strait, on July 25 last,
duplicated his countrymans feat in a
dense fog this afternoon. starting at
Calais and landing easily in a meadow
at Winston Court Farm. Fifty minutes
were consumed in the journey. Bleriot's
time was thirty-three minutes. De Les
seps started at $3.50 p. m. and landed
at 20
NJ. de Lesseps intended making the
trip from Calais to Dover and return
without alighting in an effort to win the
Ruinart prize Of $500. but the mist COM
PEELED him to descend. Ne expects TO re-
sumo his flight at daylight.
Leaving Calais amid the cheers Of an
immense crowd, De Lesseps sent his
monoplane gracefully up to a height of
four hundred feet, and then headed it in
the direction of Dover When scarcely
a mile out from the French coast the
Scarabte. as the monoplane was known,
was lost 10 sight from the torpedo boat
destroyer Escopette, which was racing
underneath it to render aid should the
aeronaut and his machine fall
De Lesseps's, only means of reckoning
his location were the rays of the sun,
which dfmly penetrated the banks of fog
in which he was enshrOuded He de-
termined to keep on. however. and. in
order. to avoid the possibility of running
into the cliffs of Dover he sent the mon
oplane to a height of a thousand feet, at
the same time keeping il pointed in the
direction in which he believed the Eng
lish coast lay. The Frenchman's cOur-
age soon was rewarded by the sight of
the gray cliffs Immediately beneath him.
Then De Lesseps stopped the whirring
motor and let the machine glide grace
fully to earth. landing without mishap
at the Winston Court Farm, one mile in
land and midway between Dover and
Deal
Few persons saw the intrepid aeronaut
come to the ground. for when the news
was flashed across from Calais that De
Lesseps had started the crowds assem-
bled on the field where NJ Bleriot de-
scended in his epoch making flight. ex-
pecting that the new seeker for cross
channel honors would choose the same
spot This it was De Lesseps's intention
to do had not the fog interfered
Considerable anxiety was felt at Calais
when De Lesseps failed to return, until
word was received from Dover that the
homeward trip was delayed by weather
conditions.
Count de Lesseps is a grandson of the
late Viscount Ferdinand de Lesseps At
Mournlelon-le-G Grand last December he
made two unsuccessful attempts to win
the 100 kilometre 'cross-country prize. on
the second trial his machine broke down,
after covering fifteen kilometres. The count
had an accident at Barcelona on May 2.
while flying in a biplane. The machine fell
and was wrecked and the aeronaut was
slightly injured about the face.
Louis BIeriot. the French aeronaut, crossed
the English Channel in an aeropiane on
the morning of July % last. His feat had
not been equalled until to-day Hubert
Latham made daring but unsuccessful
attempt on July 10. In a subsequent at
tempt Latham fell with his machine into
the water but was rescued. Later Count
de Lambert prepared for such a flight. but
his machine broke down before he had
cleared the cliffs.
Count de Lesseps had planned to attemc.
the flight last Saturday. but postponed II
because of the death of King Edward.