CONQUEST OF THE AIR

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue LIII, 17 August 1908, Page 8

CONQUEST OF THE AIR

BRITAIN'S -DIRIGIBLE AIRSHIP.

A SUCCESSFUL FLIGHT.

[press association..] LONDON, August 15.

Colonel Capper, commandant of the balloon school at Aldershot, in a hew, military dirigible airship, attained A height of 1000 feet, and demonstrated the control of the machine, making it describe the figure eight.

ANOTHER GERM AN. AIRSHIP. .

BERLIN, August 15. Major Perseval's airship flew round Berlin in 2 hours 40 mirutes.

WRIGHT BROTHERS' AEROPLANE

PARIS, August 15. / M. De la Grange, the Freyh aeroinventor, after he had witnessed Wright Bros.' experiments, admitted that he was literally disconcerted by what the American machine accom? plished. It is, he says, far safer and lighter than the French' machine. t (Received August 17 8.40 a.m.)

LONDON, August 16. . • Wilbur Wright states that he will • shortly compete for the Daily Mail's £10,000 prize.