MILITARY AIRSHIP.
- CIRCULAR FLIGHTS. WAR OFFICE CRAFT BEHAVES WELt. THE'WIND FACTOR. (Br TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION—COriRIOHT.) (Roc. August 18, 1.18 a.m.) London, August 17. Colonel Capper, Commandant of tho Balloon School at Aldcrsliot, in the new War Offico dirigible airship, covered twenty miles in a series of circular flights.' , Tho final trip, to and ;from Fitley,.; was. made with and against a stiff wind. The. airship behaved splendidly.
The "Daily Mail" prize is for aeroplanes. Tho conditions are: From' London to Manchester in twenty-four hours, with only two stops for petrol.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 279, 18 August 1908, Page 5
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90MILITARY AIRSHIP. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 279, 18 August 1908, Page 5
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