A Voisin flies over a Farman
A Voisin flies over a Farman 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
10841809
Media ID
48052100
Size
4000px x 2714px
(926KB)
Credit
© The Royal Aeronautical Society (National Aerospace Library) / Mary Evans Picture Library
Source
Photograph from The Royal Aeronautical Society Archive
Date
1910
