An Antoinette at the Grande Semaine d'Aviation meeting
An Antoinette at the Grande Semaine d'Aviation meeting held at Heliopolis near Cairo, February 1910. Organised by the Aero Club of Egypt, this early notable week-long event attracted 13 entrants - including Hauvette-Michelin, a nephew of the famous tyre manufacturers Michelin Freres, (Antoinette VII), Jacques Balsan (Bleriot XI), Hans Grade (Grade monoplane) and Henri Rougier (Voisin) - competing for a number of distance, speed and height prizes
Picture No
10841810
Media ID
48052142
Size
4000px x 2740px
(1.1MB)
Credit
© The Royal Aeronautical Society (National Aerospace Library) / Mary Evans Picture Library
Source
Photograph from The Royal Aeronautical Society Archive
Date
1910
