Show chesso chann IN hn french aviator makes trip from calais to dover without mishap in small monoplane hla lj Is speed averaged forty five miles ml lea an hour making the trip twice as aa swiftly as the fastest mall mail baal wins prize of dover louls loula a frenchman has at last succeeded in crossing the english channel in an airship this sleepy sea seaport pert town experienced the keenest thrill known in a generation when at sunrise sunday a white winged birdlike bird like machine with loudly humming bumming motor swept out from the haze obscuring the sea aea toward the distant french coast and circling twice above the high chalky cliffs of dover alighted on oil english mail boll buerlot left lea ies Bar three miles from calais about ara am on one of at the smallest monoplanes mono planes ever used lie ile crossed the channel in less than halt half an hour twice as swiftly as aa the fastest mall mail boat his speed averaged more than forty five miles an hour though sometimes it approximated sixty miles cilles ile he kept about feet abo above ve the oba sea level and far for about ten minutes in mid channel was out of sight of both coasts and the tha french torpedo boat destroyer which followed him with his bla wife and friends aboard the wind was blowing about twenty miles an hour and the sea aea was choppy the aviator was swathed in a single garment of drilling impervious to the wind which covered him from the tha top of at his head to his feet only his faco face showing ile he wore also a cork lifeboat alfe balt gy by his achievement buerlot won tho the prize of offered by the lon don dally daily mall mail for the first flight across the V english channel and stole a march on his rivals hubert huber latham and count do lambert both of whom had bad hoped to make inalie the attempt on sunday |