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041	0		_aeng
080			_a797.5
100	1		_aLieberg, Owen S.
245	1	4	_aThe first air race : _bthe international competition at Reims, 1909 / _cby Owen S Lieberg.
250			_a1st ed.
260			_aGarden City, N.Y. : _bDoubleday, _c1974.
300			_aviii, 229 p. : _bIll. ; _c22 cm.
504			_aIndex: p. 219-229
505	0		_aCont.: A rainy morning : the Aero Club's earliest members: Ernest Archdeacon, Ferdinand Ferber, and Gabriel Voisin -- The first day : the course at Reims ; The competitions -- The second day : Louis Blériot ; The mechanical controvesies -- The third day : Hubert Latham and Blériot challenge the English Channel -- The fourth day : Alberto Santos-Dumont -- The fifth day : The problems of engine design -- The sixth day : Henri Farman -- The seventh day : Glenn Curtis and the Golden Flyer -- The final day : Léon Levavasseur's Antoinette ; Paulhan and the race from London to Manchester -- The other contenders : Robert Esnault-Pelterie, Louis Bréguet, Léon Delagrange -- The other aeronauts : the men who didn't compete: Horatio Phillips, Samuel Franklin Cody, Claude Grahame-White, Thomas Sopwith, Édouard de Nieuport -- The achievements of Reims : the birth of an industry -- Appendix : Results of competitive events at the Reims flying meeting 1909.
650	1	4	_aGordon Bennett aviation cup
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