A GIDDY DESCENT.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 914, 6 September 1910, Page 5

A GIDDY DESCENT.

AEROPLANE ENGINE STOPS AT 7500 FEET.

MACHINE WHIRLS DOWN TO EARTH. AVIATOR DAZED BUT UNINJURED, By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. London, September 4. M. Morane, tho well-known aviator, was descending on "to a moor, when tho motor of his aoroplano stopped at a height of 7500 feet. Tho aviator was unable to restart it, and monbplaned down on an incline, tho machine whirling .round with a rotary motion, which caused nausea and a buzzing in his ears. In the alarming descent, tho machine was caught' in violent eddies of wind, and nearly capsized. Evontually, M. Morane recovered control of it, and alighted on level ground. He was found sitting Jn a dazed' condition, but otherwise uninjured. SERVICE ACROSS THE DESERT. A FRENCH SCHEME. ; (Eec. September 6, 0.10 a.m.). Paris, September 5. ■ General Brun, the Minister for War, is inaugurating, a service of aeroplanes between Colonbechar and ' Timbuctoo, which are now four .mouths apart. A military aviation centre.is to be established, which will be bounded by Southern Oran, where two teams will bo trained—one to work, southwards and the other northwards frpni Timbuctoo., General Brun ; is also establishing revictualling depots and repair shops. WOMAN'S REMARKABLE FLIGHT. Brussels, September 4.. . Helene Dutrieu, a Frenchwoman, put up an aerial record for height in a distance, flight. With a passenger she,aeroplaned from ,Blankenberghe to Bruges and back, a total distance of between r.i and 16 miles, at a height of 1250 feet..' PARIS TO BORDEAUX. ' ..Paris, September 4. Mr. Bielovucci aeroplaned from Paris to .Bordeaux, a distance of about 300 miles. . There were throe stoppages to take in petrol. Tho not time of tho journey w.as seven and a half hours. •FAST. 'FLYING AT-- BOSTON. ■■ ■''.- New York, Septombor 4. At the Boston aviation meeting, Mr. C, Grahame White, the.English aviator, .covored five and a quarter miles in Gmin. sseo. , A TANDEM BIPLANE. (Eec. September 6, 0.10 a.m.) London, September 5. i Lieutenant Seddon's tandem biplane has been exhibited .at' Wolverhampton, The area of tho piano is a thousand •square feet,; and- the; engine is of 100 horse-power. Tho machine has carried .five persons. Lieutenant Seddoh hopes to fly to-day.

BETTER AEROPLANE ENGINES, : "Speed is the airman's demand," so wrote Mr. Claude Graham White in tho "Daily, Mail" at the end of July. "In speed," continued - Mr. White, "he sees a solution of his greatest problems. Gradually' it has dawned upon ikiin that the air is- the: ideal element for highspeed, through the air,, before very long, will bo attained which aru impossible with vehicles on land or ships on tho seu. To tho makers of engines tho airman says: 'Give me more power, which spells speed.'' To tho builders of aeroplanes he cries: 'Construct mo planus. capable ! of tho maximum of speed.' : '.'And tho speed of aeroplanes has been creeping up. At first it was thirty-five miles an hour. Then came forty. Soon this was left behind. Round prepared aerodromes a pace of forty-iko and fifty miles an hour was attained. '. Nor did the seeking of speed end here. With racing monoplanes a rate of fifty-five and sixty'miles an hour became possible. Not satisfied with this, pilots have addedmile by mile, until tho latest records stand at ■; sixty-six miles an hour. The Speed of the Future. "Personally I believe that this is only tho beginning of tho speeds that aeroplanes will bo able to' attain. Someone was : discussing tins vitally interesting aspect of airmanship with me only tho other'day. Ho" asked the question: 'What rate will aeroplanes be "'flying through the air in a comparatively short spaco of time?' My answer was: 'In six months I fully expect that a 'monoplane will be registering speeds of-100 miles an hour.' Friends of mino who are'experts upon the scientific aspects, of-air-manship predict that . eventually speeds of 200 and oven 300 miles an hour will ho possible. . At this one's imagination is apt to reel. 'But this much is certain: if (tho flying jnachino is to become of real importance, and hot remain always a sporting toy, it will need to bo speedier than any method of transit on land. The Crux of the Situation, "The aeroplane engine is the crux at the situation. Upon its developmentrapid or slow—depends also the development of airmanship'. Fortunately for> the new science in'which wo are all st interested, the flying-machine motor is already making quite extraordinary strides. As a. well-known maker remarked to me the other day: "Each motor which wo turn out nowadays marks a step up the ladder of progress. And the engines for aircraft are not only being made more reliable, but. they also weigh less than they did at first for each horsepower of energy' produced. "This is -all-important. In this respect alone engineers have been achieving re.sults of late Which would have been dejarid absolutely impossible by cxperh a few years ago. From my point of view, as a pilot of aeroplanes, the improvement in engines has been astonishing. Last year, although long flights were occasionally made, the undertaking, of a cross-coiihtry journey was a matter of considerable uncertainty. Now, however, although our engines are still admittedly imperfect, one can fly from point to point, with a growing confidence—and an increasing absence of risk."