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This week sees the 109th anniversary of Louis Paulhan winning the London to Manchester air race, taking the £10,000 prize offered for flying from London to Manchester, a distance of 195 miles (314 km). This prize had been offered in 1906 by the Daily Mail for the first pilot to fly from London to Manchester within 24 hours. The flight had to start and finish within five miles of the Daily Mail office in each city, with no more than two landings en route. In 1906 this seemed an impossible feat — the best European fliers at that time could only stay aloft for seconds. Paulhan arrived in Manchester 12 hours after setting out from London, having spent 4 hours 12 minutes in the air, with an overnight stop at Lichfield, 117 miles from his starting point. the flightgear version is a Farman-IV, (author Emmanuel Baranger) although there is a Farman-III available at http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/flightgear/ftp/Aircraft/ Read more... | Archive