Editing Gustav Hamel (section)

===1913===
In April 1913 Hamel made the first cross-channel return flight carrying a passenger, the ''[[Evening Standard]]'' journalist Frank Dupree.<ref>{{Cite newspaper The Times|title=Double Channel Flight With a Passenger|date=12 April 1913|page=8|issue=40184}}</ref> and later that month flew with Dupree as passenger from [[Dover]] to [[Cologne]], the first time that a flight had been made from England to Germany.  The flight, sponsored by the ''Evening Standard'', was intended to draw attention to Britain's need for military aircraft.<ref name=dnb/>

In August 1913 a seventy five mile air race around the Midlands was arranged between [[Bentfield Hucks]] and Hamel. The take-off point for the contest was the Tally-Ho grounds, adjacent to [[Cannon Hill Park]]. Both aviators  then flew anti-clockwise around the circuit, landing at [[Redditch]] recreation ground, [[Coventry]], [[Nuneaton]], [[Tamworth, Staffordshire|Tamworth]] and [[Walsall]]  and  finishing at [[Edgbaston]]. Hamel won the race by a margin of just twenty seconds.<ref>[http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1913/1913%20-%200960.html The Hucks-Hamel Race] [[Flight International|''Flight'']]  6 September 1913, p. 986 ]</ref>

Following his disappointment the previous year Hamel entered the 1913 Aerial Derby, flying a Morane-Saulnier monoplane.  This time he won the competition, completing the course in 1h 15m 49s at a speed of {{convert|76|mph|kph|abbr=on}} despite a fuel leak which resulted in him having to fly part of the course plugging the leak with his finger.<ref>[http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1913/1913%20-%201038.html The Aerial Derby ] [[Flight International|''Flight'']] 27 September 1913</ref>

Hamel was quite active in [[Worcestershire]], visiting [[Pershore]] racecourse in October 1913 where he gave exhibitions of flying. He also visited [[Upton-on-Severn]], [[Worcester Racecourse]] and [[Kidderminster Victoria Cricket Club|Kidderminster cricket ground]] in October 1913.