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Title: Famous airmen and their equipment (electronic resource) : with some notes on first-aid in emergencies
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Burroughs Wellcome and Company
Subjects: Aeronautics
Publisher: London : Burroughs Wellcome
Contributing Library: Wellcome Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Wellcome Library

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The Wright Glider Flight by mechanical means was an accomplishedfact. Rumours of these exploits reached Europe, butthey were little regarded, save in France, that homeof ideas. There, another distinguished pioneer was at work,M. Santos-Dumont, who had already accomplished somuch in airship construction. In the autumn of 1906he electrified the world by a flight at Bagatelle on astrange-looking aeroplane of his own design. The Bird of Prey, as it was called, appeared like a seriesof box-kites strung together, with double-decker planestilted up at a considerable angle. There was no tail,but in front a big elevator. * To the deep regret of everyone interested in aviation, this distinguishedinventor, one of the most active pioneers of flight, fell a victim to typhoidfever and died at his home in Dayton, May 31, 1912.
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Hamel On September g, 1911, Gustav Hamel flew from Hendon to Windsor in12 minutes, with a strong following wind, carrying the mails for thefirst British Aerial Post. He has become famous as a cross-country flier,and has made many remarkable journeys from England to France and back.He was the first aviator to carry a lady passenger from England to France.Accompanied by Miss Trehawke Davies, he won the First Aerial Derby onJune 8, 1912, completing the circuit of Greater London (81 miles) in 1 hour38 minutes and 46 seconds on a 70-h.p. Gnome Bleriot. He is equipped witha Tabloid First-Aid, and is seen holding it in his hand in this photograph. 32 THE EVOLUTION OF FLIGHT A 50-horse-power Antoinette motor, on a light openframe-work resting on bicycle wheels, drove a propellerat the back, and the aviator stood in a wicker basket inthe centre.

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