Semaine d'Aviation de Vichy
Vichy, France, July 18th - 25th 1909

• The events
• The airfield
• The planes
• The results
• References

Results:

Prix de la Ville de Vichy
(20 km speed race, 12 laps of 1.666 km, contested on 18, 20 and 22-25 July)

	Pilot	Plane	Time	Prize	Notes
1.	Paul Tissandier	Wright	22:53	10,000 francs
2.	Louis Paulhan	Voisin	22:52 *	3,000 francs

* Paulhan's time is lower than Tissandier's. Something must be wrong, but the results were reported like this in two different contemporary aviation magazines.


Prix Hennessy
(highest total flight time during the meeting)

	Pilot	Plane	Time	Prize	Notes
1.	Paul Tissandier	Wright	1 h 23:39	5,000 francs
2.	Louis Paulhan	Voisin	1 h 21:58

Prix de la Traversée de l'Allier
(4 km speed race, contested on 19, 21, 22, 24 and 25 July)

	Pilot	Plane	Time	Prize	Notes
1.	Louis Paulhan	Voisin	5:00.0	4,000 francs
2.	Paul Tissandier	Wright	5:01.4	2,000 francs

Prix du Tour de Piste
(speed race, 1 lap of 1.666 km, contested on 18, 20 and 23-24 July)

	Pilot	Plane	Time	Prize	Notes
1.	Paul Tissandier	Wright	1:52	2,000 francs
2.	Louis Paulhan	Voisin	2:19	1,000 francs

Prix de Passagers
(5 km speed race with a passager, 3 laps of 1.666 km, contested on 20 and 22-25 July)

Not awarded

Total prize money won:

Pilot	Plane	Prize money
Paul Tissandier	Wright	19,000 francs
Louis Paulhan	Voisin	8,000 francs

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