The Channel has again been flown, and again by a
French- man. Last Saturday afternoon M. Jacques de Lesseps, grandson of the famous engineer, started from Calais and landed safely at a. farm near St. Margaret's Bay. The flight was made on a Bleriot monoplane, driven by a Gnome engine, and the resolution of M. de Lesseps was severely tested by the fact that owing to a thick fog he was obliged to fly at a great height. He was steering by the sun, and actually saw and heard nothing from the time he left Calais until be landed. A French torpedo-boat accompanied him, but was soon out- distanced, and in the atmospheric conditions that prevailed could have been of no assistance whatever. The transit only occupied thirty-five minutes, and for a considerable distance was performed at the rate of a mile a minute. M. de Lesseps had intended to fly back on the following day, but the wind proving too high he returned to Calais in the torpedo-boat.
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