A fresh "record" was set up on Wednesday by M.
Pierre Prier, a young Frenchman, and assistant of M. Bleriot, who flew without a stop from Hendon to Issy-les-Moulineaux out- side Paris, a distance of 250 miles, in two minutes under four hours. The weather was very favourable, and with a follow- ing wind he maintained a speed of 63 miles an hour, this accomplishing the journey, as the Daily Mail points out, in half the time taken by the fastest expresses. M. Prier, whose flight is by far the longest across country without a stop, is the seventh airman to cross the Channel. The machine used was a Bleriot monoplane of the latest type fitted with a 50 h.-p. Gnome engine, and he is reported to have said on landing that he had enough petrol in his tank to take him back to London. (Mr. Galsworthy will note with dismay M. Prier's observations that his journey has suggested to him the possibility of what could be done with, say, 500 aeroplanes each carrying dynamite.
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