Word: nieuport
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Dates: during 1911-1911
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Grahame--White started out on the first day to repeat his performance of last year and carried away nearly all the prizes for that day. He used a Nieuport monoplane with a 70 horse-power Gnome engine, and it was the prettiest machine on the field, as well as one of the speediest. On the second day of the meet, however, it was Beachey who was the centre of interest. The weather was unfavorable for flying, being cloudy and threatening with a small gale blowing, but in spite of this he ascended some 2,000 feet in his Curtis biplane...
...final day of the meet the weather permitted Grahame-White to show the real speed of his Nieuport monoplane and he covered the Boston Light course, a distance of 33 miles, in the remarkable time of 27 minutes, 35 1-5 seconds...