2-635-049 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Circuit of Britain air race: Jules Vedrines at Shoreham Control, Sussex, 1911 (1933). Jules Charles Toussaint Védrines (1881-1919) was an early French aviator notable for being the first pilot to fly at more than 100 mph and for winning the 1911 Paris to Madrid air race in May 1911. He is pictured in the cockpit of a Morane-Borel-Gnome monoplane, in which he finished second in the 1911 Circuit of Britain. From History of British Aviation 1908-1914, Volume I, by R. Dallas Brett [The Aviation Book Club, London, 1933]