The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-23
GREAT ENGLISH AEROPL AVE RACE
 IS UNDER WAY S50,OOO Prize for a Flight of 1910 Miles Around
 England

Rrook1and, England, July 22.-In beauti- full weather for spectators, but very tricky for the airmen the start was made this afternoon in the s5O0oO Daily Mail flight around England over a course of 1910 miles. Nineteen aviators of the thirty entered essayed the first section of 20 miles to Hendon. Three, however, failed to get outside of the aerodrome here.
 Lieut. John c. Porte of the British navy fell from a height of 50 feet, wrecking his
 machine but sustaining only few scratches. Another Englishman, F. C.. Jenkins. had a similar fall, but escaped
 unnjured, while a third Englishman, E..
 c. Gordon, was unable to get his machine to rise.
 The others got away well, A. Beaumont l U.ieutenant DeConneau) and the other F'renchmen making brilliant starts. c. T l NNeymann. the American representative 1 in a Newport monoplane had bad luck. After what looked to be a favorable start a balky engine forced him to return, but
 he soon got away again.
 l The aviators who covered the first leg were; A. Beaumont, H. J. D. Atsley, c,
 
 Lieut.. R. A. Cammell E. Audemars, J.
 Valentine, C. P. Pizey, c. H. Pixton, s.
 F. Cody, G. Hame M. Montalet, c. T. l Wcymann, Lieut.. H. Bier and Lieutenant
 Reynolds.
 l The three men who failed to reach Hen don may try tomorrow or Monday. l The task set for the airmen Is con- 1 sidered very difficult and it is doubt full if any of them complete the course.
 The course is north from Broolslands to
 Edinburg and Stirling, south to Glas-
 gow. Manchester and Exeter, east to | Brighton and north again to Brook | lands. a total distance of 101O miles. | The conditions are severe and much
 will depend upon the stability of the
 machines. The flying men must do the
 circuit with their aeropanes intact.
 The most important parts of each ma
 chine were marked before the start and l these parts must be kept together | throughout the race. This is re-
 quirement radically different from the
 rules that governed the European cir
 cult competition in which the men who l finished had changed their aeroplanes
 at some stage of the journey or made
 substitutions of important parts | The severest test isN expected in the l flight northward from Harrow Gate to
 Edinburg, where the uneven country is 1 lto ppiiSiDlt lol tiOubitS LII bii tui 1 rents.
 Tendon, England July 22-Forty thou- | sand persons gathered at the Aero club l grounds. and more than 100000 others crowded the hillsides and fields today
 to witness the finish of the first section
 of the British aviation circuit race. Beaumont, winner of the Paris-Rome
 and European circuit races, arrived first, covering the distance at the rate of about mile a minute. Vedrines.r winner of the Paris Madrid race. was next, his pace being even faster than Beaumont's. All descended safely.
 ! The average time of the aviators was l 25 minutes Lieutenant Cammell was
 obliged to descend at Hounsow Heath on l account of broken valve and his elapsed | time was three and one-half hours. The l American. Weymann, on account of hav- l ing to return to the aerod rome after his | first start, took almost an hour for the l 20 miles.
 l J. Nedrines was the third man to reach l Tendon, covering the first stage of 20
 miles in 19 minutes and AS seconds. Beaumont's time was 20 minutes 3-5 seconds. dozen of the airmen landed within an hour.
 Weymann, American, landed at 6:1d, having developed a tremendous burst of speed when he once got away His total time, however, 5S minutes ana IT seconds, was about the poorest of the day After starting from Brook lands he found that his engine was working badly and he was obliged to return to the starting point Thus he was handicapped by upwards of a half hour When his machine settled down to business the American came through like the wind.
 Capt $. F. Cody, ~ Cody biplane. made the distance in 25 minutes and 1 s seconds.