FIFTY AEROPLANES.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 318, 3 October 1908, Page 5

FIFTY AEROPLANES.

BIG FRENCH ORDER OF THE WRIGHT MODEL. (BT TEIEGEAPE—rSESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT.) Paris, October 1. M. Wciller, the purchaser of the French patent rights in Wright Bros.' aeroplane, has ordered a French firm to construct fifty. THE FRENCH WAR OFFICE AND MR. WRIGHT. It was cabled early in| August that tho French Government had bought the Wright aeroplane. Newspapers to hand by mail deny this. The "Daily Mail" remarked on August 19:— ( "Mr. Wright's experiments havb been closely followed by the staff of the (French) Ministry for War, and although there has never been any question of Franco purchasing the Wright patents, military aeronauts continue' to manifest the greatest interest in ths progress of the invention.' Tho French War Office is said to regard the aeroplane as at present impracticable for military purposes because it requires a special apparatus of a somewhat cumbersomo nature to enable it to start from tho ground." Tho same paper is responsible for the statement that the Lazare-Weillor Syndicate has stipulated that if he (Mr.' Wright) makes two separate flights of thirty miles each >in less than oiie hour, carrying with him a passenger and sufficient fuel for 120 miles, the syndicate will pay ,£20,000 for the sole right of manufacture of hid aeroplane in Prance and the French colonies." .