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Show DEADLY AND VICTORIOUS. Tho mournful record that we read in the news dispatches from day to day of accidents in the progress of air flights is an accumulating grief to humanity. All deplore these deaths, and especially the deadly accidents that come to the most skilled of the aviators. Yet still, not from these cases nor from any other reason whatever, will tho science of aviation be halted, until full success in navigating the air is assured, as we fumly believe it will be. In the meantime, it is good to note such signal triumph as in the early part of Juno by Marcel D. G. Brindejoue des Moulenais, who, as the telegrams tell us, left his station near Paris, June 10th, in a biplane moved br an SO-horsepower SO-horsepower motor, his destination being Warsaw, a distance of 1067 miles. The trip was made in the competition for the semi-annual Pommery cup, which goes to the aviator making the longest flight across the. country in Europe from sunrise to sunset, in one day, during which period he may stop as often as he likes to replenish fuel. Moulenais started from Villacoublay, near Paris, and landed in the Johan-nesthal Johan-nesthal aerodrome, outside of Berlin, doing do-ing the distance of 674. miles in an air line in seven hours and four minutes, or approximately a mile in 37 4-5 seconds. sec-onds. He started from Villacoublay at -f o'clock on Juno 10th, arriving at Johannesthal at 12:04 noon, which is 11:04 Paris time, making only one landing land-ing at Wan no, this between S and 9 o'clock. This is the third attempt of Moulenais to win this trophy, he having hav-ing been beaten in the flight from Paris to Berlin on two successive years. It is stated that Moulenais selected the most unfavorable day for his flight; he landed at Wanuc in a Tviud that was blowing sixty miles an hour. At Johannesthal Johan-nesthal tho breeze was so strong that none of the local flying men ventured an ascension. Moulenais rested three hours at Johannesthal, concluding at 3 o'clock to abandon further flight; but in a few minutes he changed his mind and made the start of his flight from Berlin to Warsaw at 'A:?7 p. m. He left tho aerodrome at a terrific speed, flying in a gale. For 'more than an hour ho maintained an average speed of 130 miles to tho hour, passing over Posen, a'bout 150 miles from Johannesthal, Johannes-thal, at 4:55 p. m. Ho landed at Warsaw War-saw at 7:15 p. m., as stated, covering the .10(57 miles in 15 hours and a quarter, quar-ter, but actual going timo 12 hours and 15 minutes, with tho time allowance allow-ance of oue hour, making his actual timo of flight 11 hours and 15 minutes. It is feUcecHsful achievements like this that spur aviators on to further efforts and to moro difficult flights, and .hero is no question but that these efforts will continue until tho conquest |