Show en n oss CHANNEL N french aviator makes trip from calais to dov dover er without mishap in small wall S monoplane his speed Avera averaged oed forty five mile miles an hour making the trip twice the fastest mall mail as a swiftly as boat wins prize prix of dover lou Louis Dier Bler lot a french man has at last succeeded d in cross crops ing the english channel in an this sleepy seaport port town expert paced the keenest thrill in a generation when bl n at sunrise sunday a 3 white winged birdlike bird like machine with loudly humming motor swept oat from the haze obscuring the sea to ward ard the distant french coast and circling clr aing twice above the high chalk chalky clatts of dover blighted on english soil buerlot left les US Bar three miles 11 from calais about 4 30 a m on 0 n one of the smallest monoplanes ever used he ile crossed the channel in less than half an hour twice aa Is swiftly as the fastest nail boat lilt speed averaged more than forty fortyl five lve miles an hour though sometimes it approximated sixty milea miles he ile kept 8 about bout feet above the sea level and for about ten minutes in mid channel was out of eight sight of both coasts and the french torpedo boat destroyer which followed him with his wife and friends aboard the wind was blowing about twenty miles an hour and the sea was chop py the aviator was swathed in a single garment of drilling drilli ag impervious to the wind which covered him from the top of his had hoad h ad to his feet only his face fare showing lie wore also a cork life lif ebelt belt uy by his achievement buerlot won the prize of sa 5 offered by the lon lou dim ddn dally daily mall tor for the first flight across the english channel and etole stole a march on his rivals hubert latham and count de lambert both 0 of wooi had hoped to make the attempt on qa sunday |