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Frenchman Louis Paulhan landed his biplane at Manchester (pictured), having departed from London the previous day, to win the world's first long-distance air race
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Louis Paulhan
Pioneering French aviator
Isidore Auguste Marie Louis Paulhan, was a French aviator. He is known for winning the first Daily Mail aviation prize for the first flight between London and Manchester in 1910.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
1910 London to Manchester air race
Race between Claude Grahame-White and Louis Paulhan
The 1910 London to Manchester air race took place between two aviators, each of whom attempted to win a heavier-than-air powered flight challenge between London and Manchester. The race had first been proposed by the Daily Mail newspaper in 1906. The £10,000 prize was won in…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)