La Grande Semaine d'Aviation de Champagne
Reims, France, August 22th - 29th 1909

Results:


French Gordon Bennett Trophy Qualifications, 22 august 1909
(20 km speed race, 2 laps of a 10 km course)


Pilot
Plane
Time
Prize
Notes
Qualified
Eugène Lefebvre
Wright #25
No time


Qualified
Louis Blériot
Blériot #23
No time


Qualified
Hubert Latham
Antoinette #13
18:33.0


Substitute
Paul Tissandier
Wright #4
19:26.2



Hubert Latham
Antoinette #29
19:44.2


Substitute
Louis Paulhan
Voisin #20
21:45.0


Substitute
Roger Sommer
Farman #6
23:22.6




Grand Prix de la Champagne et de la Ville de Reims, 23 - 27 August 1909
(Maximum closed course distance without landing)


Pilot
Plane
Distance
Prize
Notes
1.
Henri Farman
Farman #30
180 km
50,000 francs

2.
Hubert Latham
Antoinette #29
154.5 km
25,000 francs

3.
Louis Paulhan
Voisin #20
131 km
10,000 francs

4.
Charles de Lambert
Wright #7
116 km
5,000 francs

5.
Hubert Latham
Antoinette #13
111 km
5,000 francs

6.
Paul Tissandier
Wright #4
111 km
5,000 francs

7.
Roger Sommer
Farman #6
60 km


8.
Léon Delagrange
Blériot #16
50 km


9.
Louis Blériot
Blériot #23
40 km


10.
Glenn Curtiss
Curtiss #8
30 km


11.
Eugène Lefebvre
Wright #25
21 km




Coupe d'Aviation Gordon Bennett, 28 August 1909
(20 km speed race, 2 laps of a 10 km course)


Pilot
Plane
Time
Prize
Notes
1.
Glenn Curtiss
Curtiss #8
15:30.6
25,000 francs

2.
Louis Blériot
Blériot #22
15:56.2


3.
Hubert Latham
Antoinette #13
17:32.0


4.
Eugène Lefebvre
Wright #25
20:47.6


5.
George Cockburn
Farman #32


Forced landing, lap 1


Prix de la Vitesse, 22 - 29 August 1909
(30 km speed race, 3 laps of a 10 km course. Prize money offered by Heidsieck-Monopole and Louis Roederer.)


Pilot
Plane
Time
Prize
Notes
1.
Glenn Curtiss
Curtiss #8
25:39.2
10,000 francs
+ 10 %, actual time 23:29.2
2.
Hubert Latham
Antoinette #29
26:33.2
5,000 francs
+ 5 %, actual time 25:18.2
3.
Paul Tissandier
Wright #4
28:59.2
3,000 francs

4.
Eugène Lefebvre
Wright #25
29:00.0
2,000 francs

5.
Charles de Lambert
Wright #7
29:02.0


6.
Hubert Latham
Antoinette #13
29:11.4

+ 10 %, actual time 26:32.4
7.
Louis Paulhan
Voisin #20
32:49.8


8.
Étienne Bunau-Varilla
Voisin #27
42:25.8

+ 10 %, actual time 38:30.8
9.
Roger Sommer
Farman #6
79:33.2




Prix du Tour de Piste
(10 km speed race, 1 lap of a 10 km course. Prize money offered by Pommery et Greno.)


Pilot
Plane
Time
Prize
Notes
1.
Louis Blériot Blériot #22 7:47.8 7,000 francs
2.
Glenn Curtiss Curtiss #8 7:49.4 3,000 francs
3.
Hubert Latham Antoinette #13 8:32.6
4.
Eugène Lefèbvre Wright #25 8:58.8
5.
Henry Farman Farman #30 9:06.4
6.
Paul Tissandier Wright #4 9:26.2
7.
Charles de Lambert Wright #7 9:33.4
8.
Georges Legagneux Voisin #17 9:56.8
9.
Louis Paulhan Voisin #20 10:50.0
10.
Léon Delagrange Blériot #16 11:03.6
11.
Roger Sommer Farman #6 11:24.4
12.
George Cockburn Voisin #32 11:44.0
13.
Étienne Bunau-Varilla Voisin #12 13:30.2


Prix des Passagers, 28 - 29 August 1909
(10 km speed race with maximum number of passengers, 1 lap of a 10 km course. Prize money offered by Veuve Cliquot-Ponsardin.)


Pilot
Plane
Passengers
Time
Prize
1.
Henry Farman
Farman #30
2
10:39.0
10,000 francs
2.
Henri Farman
Farman #30
1
9:52.2

3.
Eugène Lefebvre
Wright #25
1
10:39.0



Prix de l'Altitude, 29 August 1909
(Maximum altitude. Prize money offered by Moët et Chandon.)


Pilot
Plane
Altitude
Prize
Notes
1.
Hubert Latham
Antoinette #29
155 m 10,000 francs

2.
Henri Farman
Farman #30
110 m

3.
Louis Paulhan
Voisin #20
90 m

4.
Henri Rougier
Voisin #28
55 m



Prix des Mecaniciens, 29 August 1909
(Longest distance flown between xxx h and xxx h. Winning distances differ between different references, those give are from the "Livre d'Or".)


Pilot
Plane
Distance
Prize
Notes
1.
Étienne Bunau-Varilla
Voisin #27
100 km 2,000 francs
+ 500 francs to the crew, based on the 100 km flown
2.
Henri Rougier
Voisin #28
90 km 1,000 francs
+ 450 francs to the crew, based on the 90 km flown
3.
Roger Sommer
Farman #6
? km 500 francs



Prix des Aéronats, 22 - 29 August 1909
(50 km speed race for airships, 5 laps of a 10 km course. Prize money offered by G.-H. Mumm.)


Pilot
Airship
Altitude
Prize
Notes
1.
Henri Kapferer
"Colonel Renard"
1 h 19:49.5 10,000 francs

2.
Henri de la Vaulx
"Zodiac III"
1 h 25:01.0



Total prize money won


Pilot
Plane
Prize
1.
Henry Farman
Farman
60,000 francs
2.
Hubert Latham
Antoinette
45,000 francs
3.
Glenn Curtiss
Curtiss
38,000 francs
4.
Louis Paulhan
Voisin
10,000 francs
5.
Paul Tissandier
Wright
8,000 francs
6.
Louis Blériot
Blériot
7,000 francs
7.
Charles de Lambert
Wright
5,000 francs
8.
Eugène Lefebvre
Wright
2,000 francs
9.
Étienne Bunau-Varilla
Voisin
2,000 francs
10.
Henri Rougier
Voisin
1,000 francs
11.
Roger Sommer
Farman
500 francs