WAR OFFICE AEROPLANE.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 331, 19 October 1908, Page 7

WAR OFFICE AEROPLANE.

WRECKED BY A FALL. (BY TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COFTEIO'IT.) London, October 17. j While experiments wero being conducW with an army aeroplane at Aldorshot, the machine fell 20 feet, and was wrecked. ' Mr. Cody was thrown out, but escaped unhurt.

While giving most of its attention to the dirigible balloon, or gas-filled bag form or airship (such as the Nulli Secnndus), tho British War Offico has latterly not neglected the heavior-than-air principle, and it was announced on September 3 tllat "Mr. Cody has nearly' completed his mechanically-propelled aeroplane, and a trial flight may be expected shortly." This is the machine which has come to grief. It was cabled from New York on October D that "the American Government propose to supply the Navy and tho Army with flying machines on the heavior-than-air principle, having a speed of 40 miles an hour, and capable of a four-hour flight, carrying two men." Roseate forecasts havo from time to time been made of the powers of the new dirigible balloon of the British War Offico, but little has been heard about that air-craft lately.