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Title: Great Aviation Week |
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Description: The 1910 "Great Aviation Week" in Rouen, France was a well organized international competition that attracted the top pilots of Europe: Leon Morane and Hubert Latham of France; Cattaneo of Italy; and Britain’s Captain Bertram Dickson, the winner of the meet. Dickson was an adventurer who travelled around the world with King George V., fought two wars, explored extensively in Africa, and successfully settled a border dispute between Chile and Argentina. At Rouen, he won the first prize for duration by staying aloft for nearly 2 1/2 hours without landing, and also took first place for the total distance flown by logging 747 km. (about 450 miles) on his Farman machine. Leon Morane, who placed second at the meeting, thrilled the crowds by leaving the flying grounds to circle around the Rouen Cathedral. |
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