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LONDON TO MANCHESTER – DAILY MAIL AIR RACE 1910

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                                 French pilot Louis Paulhan LONDON TO MANCHESTER – DAILY MAIL AIR RACE 1910:  Two amazing flying-machines competed for £10,000 prize money Report by Don Hale. On 28th April 1910, and after more than four years of prompting by the public and press, two intrepid pioneer flyers, an Englishman Claude Grahame-White, and a French rival, Louis Paulhan, fuelled the country’s enthusiasm for aviation racing, by taking part in an exciting challenge, flying from London to Manchester in an attempt to win an incredible £10,000 prize offered by Daily Mail newspaper proprietor Lord Northcliffe.                                                         Louis Paulhan Paulhan and Grahame-White were thrust into direct competition and the previous afternoon, and very late in the day, they had begun their mad-dash attempt to reach Manchester, flying high over the exposed tracks of the London & North Western Railway Company, closely following the route to the North West.  Al