ALL-METAL PLANES

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 164, 13 July 1910, Page 5

ALL-METAL PLANES

FLYING AT 100 MILES. PARIS, July 12. Experts infer that the achievements of' various aviators at the recent flying carnival at Rheims foreshadow that allmetal aeroplanes with the most powerful engines will travel at the rate of 100 miles an hour. LONDON, July 12. An aviation meeting at Bournemouth, opened auspiciously, 15 British and five j foreign competitors taking part, a total of £SSOO being offered in prizes. Stands capable of accommodating 35,000 spectators have been built. i The Hon. C. S. Rolls was one of the .first in Britain to obtain an aeroplane, and on his short Wright machine he | made many successful flights, his greatest achievement, the flight from Dover to i Calais and back, being described in our ! issue of Thursday last. He was the third son of the first Baron Slangattock, and was only 33 years of age. He was technical managing director of the RollsRoyce Motor Manufacturing Company, and at Oxford was captain of the 'Varsity cycling team. He was a pioneer of the introduction of automobilism into England, and drove his racing caT with conspicuous success, proving himself, as he later did in the air, possessed of nerves of steel. Several times he established world's records for speed, and in 190S he won the International in the Isle of Man. He has made over 160 ascents in his own balloon and won the French Aero Club's prize for longest journey during 1900, Paris to. Norfolk. He was a very shrewd and capable business'mah, aad was- extremely, popular in sporting circles. As "captain of the** London section of the Army Motor Reserve, he rendered great services to tbe nation, determining the use of motor cars for the rapid transport of troops from London to various points on the coast where a hostile army might land.