Post by account_disabled on Dec 26, 2023 2:17:44 GMT -5
Rolls-Royce celebrates 110 years of Charles Stewart Rolls' non-stop return flight across the English Channel. The world's first Rolls, which is known as a pioneer in aviation. Rolls flew from Dover to Sangatte and back on the same day, 2 June 1910. Rolls' historic round-trip flight It comes less than a year after Louis Bleriot made the first one-way flight across the English Channel. The flight was Rolls' last great aviation achievement and came just one month before his death at the age of 32 at 6:30 PM on June 2, 1910. The aviation pioneer Charles Stewart Rolls takes to the skies from an airport near Dover. With a fragile-looking airplane alone To carry out a non-stop mission to travel back and forth across the English Channel.
For the first time in the world, for more than a week he waited patiently in discomfort. Due to strong winds, fog and engine problems This made it impossible to take off, but eventually the weather was calm and the Telegram Number Data sky was clear. Among the crowd on the cliff waiting to witness his greatest feat were his father and mother, Lord and Lady Lungattok. (Llangattock) including Sir John and Lady Shelley sister and brother-in-law According to the Daily Telegraph, Rolls reached an altitude of 900 feet at a speed of approximately 40 mph. As he headed towards the coast of France at 7:15 p.m., flying over the small town of Sangatte, where the mouth of the present-day English Channel Tunnel is located, Rolls reached out and scattered three letters. Weighted version with the message: “Hello Automobile Club of France…This letter was dropped from the Wright brothers' airplane as it was crossing from England to France.
Greetings to the Auto Club of France…Dropped from a Wright aeroplane crossing from England to France. C. S. Rolls, June 1910. P.S. Vive l'Entente) After that, he returned north and headed for the English coast. They arrived in Dover at 8:00 p.m. The Daily Telegraph reported that “the sea-coast, cliffs, and harbor were thronged with people waiting with the greatest excitement,” and Rolls presented them with prizes. With a colorful flying show He flies in circles around the outer tower of the city's medieval castle. “At that time there was still a lot of engine oil left. And the engine works great. So I decided to fly around the castle a bit. Even if it is a much longer flight,” he told a Telegraph reporter. His heroism was liked by the crowd.
For the first time in the world, for more than a week he waited patiently in discomfort. Due to strong winds, fog and engine problems This made it impossible to take off, but eventually the weather was calm and the Telegram Number Data sky was clear. Among the crowd on the cliff waiting to witness his greatest feat were his father and mother, Lord and Lady Lungattok. (Llangattock) including Sir John and Lady Shelley sister and brother-in-law According to the Daily Telegraph, Rolls reached an altitude of 900 feet at a speed of approximately 40 mph. As he headed towards the coast of France at 7:15 p.m., flying over the small town of Sangatte, where the mouth of the present-day English Channel Tunnel is located, Rolls reached out and scattered three letters. Weighted version with the message: “Hello Automobile Club of France…This letter was dropped from the Wright brothers' airplane as it was crossing from England to France.
Greetings to the Auto Club of France…Dropped from a Wright aeroplane crossing from England to France. C. S. Rolls, June 1910. P.S. Vive l'Entente) After that, he returned north and headed for the English coast. They arrived in Dover at 8:00 p.m. The Daily Telegraph reported that “the sea-coast, cliffs, and harbor were thronged with people waiting with the greatest excitement,” and Rolls presented them with prizes. With a colorful flying show He flies in circles around the outer tower of the city's medieval castle. “At that time there was still a lot of engine oil left. And the engine works great. So I decided to fly around the castle a bit. Even if it is a much longer flight,” he told a Telegraph reporter. His heroism was liked by the crowd.