Meeting d'Aviation de Nice
Nice, France, April 15th - 24th, 1910



1
Voisin
Pilot: Henri Rougier
Engine: 50/60 hp ENV V-8
Unusually for a Voisin at this time it was not equipped with a front wheel. (1)

1
Voisin
Pilot: Henri Rougier
Engine: 50/60 hp ENV V-8
Rougier brought two machines to the meeting. It is not known whether this is a different example or if the race number was repainted, as was the case with several other machines. (2)

2
Antoinette VII
Pilot: Hubert Latham
Engine: 50 hp Antoinette V-8
Latham brought two planes to the meeting, but only one engine. (2)

3
Not used
Number 3 was assigned to Hubert Le Blon, who was killed at San Sebastián two weeks before the start of the meeting.

4
Grade
Pilot: Hans Grade
Engine: 24 hp Grade V-4
(2)

5
Farman
Pilot: Charles Van den Born
Engine: 50 hp Gnôme 7 cyl.
This was reportedly the actual airframe that Henry Farman used at Reims, but at least the tail had been modified since then. (3)

6
Voisin
Pilot: René Métrot
Engine: 60 hp ENV V-8
Métrot brought two planes to the meeting. (4)

Photo wanted!

7
Voisin
Pilot: Robert Svendsen
Engine: 50 hp Gnôme 7-cyl.

8
Farman
Pilot: Jorge Chávez
Engine: 50 hp Gnôme 7-cyl.
This photo shows the plane during the beginning of the meeting. When it was repaired after the crash on 17 April shorter lower wing panels were installed. (5)

9
Curtiss
Pilot: Frederick Van Riemsdijk
Engine: 25 hp Curtiss I-4
(1)

10
Blériot XI
Pilot: Jan Olieslagers
Engine: 25 hp Anzani 3-cyl.
Olieslagers brought two planes to the meeting. (2)

11
Farman
Pilot: Michel Efimoff (Mikhail Yefimov / Михаил Ефимов)
Engine: 50 hp Gnôme 7 cyl.
Efimoff and Chávez used short-tail "racing" Farmans with a second tail elevator, while the others were of the standard model. (6)

11
Farman
Pilot: Michel Efimoff (Mikhail Yefimov / Михаил Ефимов)
Engine: 50 hp Gnôme 7 cyl.
Efimoff's plane again, here with much bigger race numbers. They were repainted during the meeting, probably to improve visibility. (2)

12
Farman
Pilot: Arthur Duray
Engine: 60 hp ENV V-8
(1)

13
Wright
Pilot: Charles Rolls
Engine: 30 hp Barriquand & Marre I-4
A French-built machine. The rear stabilizer was added in Nice by Henri Chazal. Rolls had intended to bring two machines to the meeting, but the other one, a Short-built machine, was held up on the railway and didn't arrive in time. (7)

14
Farman
Pilot: Alfred Rawlinson
Engine: 50 hp Darracq O-4
(2)

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