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...Aeronautical Society will conduct a cinematograph exhibit of aeroplanes in flight, in Brattle Hall next Monday evening at 8 o'clock. Motion views of the late Ralph Johnstone performing the "spiral glide" in the Wright machine. Le Blanc in a Bleriot monoplane making a world's speed record of 68 miles an hour, Paulhan flying at Los Angeles, and other flyers at recent aviation meets, will be shown. A public admission of 50 cents will be charged, and society members will be admitted free on showing their 1910-11 membership cards, which may be obtained from A. Sweetser...
...Aero meet at Squantum, in September Mr. Grahame-White proved to be the most versatile of the aviators, taking prizes in all but two events. He won first place in the speed trial, using his Bleriot monoplane; in the getaway, with a Farman biplane, and was first in the contest for accuracy in dropping bombs on a dummy battleship. In addition to this, he took second place in the trials for altitude, duration and distance, and won the Globe prize for a flight to Boston Light and back...
...Among the Americans were Walter Brookins and Ralph Johnstone with Wright biplanes, Glenn H. Curties and Charles Foster Willard in Curtiss biplanes, William M. Hilliard with a Burgess biplane, and Cromwell Dixon with a dirigible balloon. The Englishmen were Claude Grahame-White, who used a Farman biplane and a Bleriot monoplane, and A. V. Roe with his triplanes...
Grahame-White proved the most versatile of the aviators, taking prizes in all but two events, as well as winning that offered by the Globe, making a total of $22,100. He won first place in the trial for speed, using his Bleriot monoplane, in which he covered three laps of the course, a distance of 5 1-4 miles, in 6 minutes, 1 second; first in the getaway, in a Farman biplane, leaving the ground 26 feet, 9 inches from the point from which he started; and first in the contest for accuracy in dropping bombs on a dummy...
...Harvard Aeronautical Society has arranged to have an exhibition and headquarters at the forthcoming National Aero Exhibit to be held in Mechanics Hall from the 16 to the 23 of this month. In the exhibition there will be the glider, which is being assembled rapidly; the Wright and Bleriot airship models which the Society owns; and a large number of drawings of the aeroplane "Harvard...