Famous airmen and their equipment [electronic resource] : with some notes on first-aid in emergencies . 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 was the first aviator to carry a lady passenger from England to by Miss Trehawke Davies, he won the First Aerial Derby onJune 8, 1912, completing the circuit of Greater London (81 miles) in 1
Famous airmen and their equipment [electronic resource] : with some notes on first-aid in emergencies . 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 was the first aviator to carry a lady passenger from England to 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 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 Santos-Dumonts first French Biplane The Bird of Prey, after being run along theground a hundred yards at 25 miles an hour, hoppedSantos when the elevator was tilted upwards. Dumonts It hopped to such purpose that onhistoric hop Q^Q^gj. 2^ 1906, Santos Dumont flewfor seventy yards, and the following month for threetimes that distance. Thus, on two separate and independent lines ofdevelopment, aeroplane flight was challenging theworlds attention by the close of 1906. It could nolonger be ignored; the wiseacres who had so longlaughed at its pretensions began to perceive that anew force, suggesting almost limitless possibilities, hadcome up over the horizon—a force which must bereckoned with in future, both for peace and war. It was in regard to the latter that the immediatedevelopment of the aeroplane appeared the moreimportant. Captain Ferber, inspired by the exampleof the brothers Lilienthal, carried out some veryinstructive gliding experiments on his own account,and it was he who ev
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