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Title: Great Aviation Fortnight |
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Description: Total Prizes: 265,000 francs; GREAT AVIATION FORTNIGHT of the Bay of the Seine. Le Havre - Trouville - Deauville, August 26 - September 6. Roundtrip rail tickets at reduced Prices. "The Seabather" ticket is valid for 33 days and available upon request from all stations within the eastern network. The "Grande Quinzaine D’Aviation" was a two week international competition held in Le Havre, Trouville, and Deauville, France, three cities along the Bay of the Seine (where the Seine meets the English Channel). The world’s record in altitude was broken twice during this meet by the famous French aviator Leon Morane. In Le Havre, on August 29. 1910 he flew to a height of 7,166 feet in a Bleriot monoplane to break the record recently set by Hubert Latham in Reims at the beginning of the month. When the altitude competition was held again in Deauville on September 3, Morane beat his own record, soaring to a height of 8,469 feet. Another major event at this meeting was "The Crossing of the Bay of the Seine," a three day contest in which pilots raced across the Bay from Le Havre to Deauville and back. The results were based on the total crossings as well as time; Latham won the first prize of 10,000 francs plus a trophy for a total of 16 crossings in his Antoinette monoplane. The poster depicts this event showing an Antoinette in flight over the Bay of the Seine. |
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