This was the most prestigious event of the meeting, and was a competition between national teams, sponsored by Gordon Bennett, the publisher of the New York Herald and was being held for the first time.
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It was entered for the Grande Semaine d'Aviation in Reims in August 1909, but Esnault-Pelterie did not compete here owing to an injury to his hand.