France, what is it and where?

aa – and crashed in that aircraft too. See photo. At the Bournemouth meet it was given the number 18.

On 2 June he was the first to make a first double crossing of the English Channel – again, in that aeroplane.

….. and ten days later Rolls was dead.

It is the Short Bros. built 50 hp Wright I-4 owned and flown by the Hon. Charles Rolls at the Midlands Meeting, held at Wolverhampton, between June 27th – July 2nd, 1910.

Some photos from the the Grande Semaine de Cannes, March 27 – April 3, 1910.

Hayden Sands on Antoinette, during the Grande Semaine de Cannes, March 27 – April 3, 1910

Baratoux in flight on Wright during Cannes Week, end of March 1910,

Riemsdyck’s aircraft Curtiss biplane, during the Grande Semaine de Cannes, 1910.

I’ve seen that photo somewhere else,  right down to the upside-down 8 on the tail. Possibly in Aeroplane Monthly? 

I think it’s a Wright Brothers design, or close kin, but I can’t dredge up anything else from the memory banks and the local ATC will have had the relevant issue long ago. 

Reims flying school?