100 MILES AN HOUR IN AN AEROPLANE.
RECORD FLIGHT FROM POICTIERS TO PARIS.
A wonderful flight from Poictiers to Paris on an aeroplane in two hours and 12 minutes was successfully achieved by M. Vedrienes, the airman, this morning (says a Paris message of March 31). He flew at the rate of 100 miles an hour beating the time of the fastest express train by two hours.
The distance is 220 miles. M. Vedrienes’ arrival here was quite unexpected. Soldiers were drilling on the parade ground at Issy J les Moulineuax at half-past 8, when an officer noticed a small spot in the sky. + It grew rapidly larger, until it was seen to be an aeroplane. The soldiers were drawn up out of its way, and the aeroplane dropped lightly to earth.
Two days ago M. Vedrienes flew from Paris to Poictiers in three hours and 10 minutes, and then went •on to Pau. He returned at the rate of 100 miles an hour, and at sunrise the folowing day he left Paris on his aeroplane for Pau again. “I have an engagement there,” he said, this afternoon, “and I hate railway travelling.”
[Published by arrangement with Messrs Cassell and Company; Limited, of London,' the proprietors of the copyright.]
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3227, 25 May 1911, Page 3
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209100 MILES AN HOUR IN AN AEROPLANE. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3227, 25 May 1911, Page 3
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