AIRSHIP GROSSES CHANNEL.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 950, 18 October 1910, Page 5

AIRSHIP GROSSES CHANNEL.

CLEMENT BAYARD ll's FINE PLIGHT. ■. - BOATS AND CAES OUTDISTANCED, ■ London, Ootober 16. ■ ; The. airship Clement: : Bayard, carrying seven passengers, has successfully made the voyage from Compiegne, fortyeight miles. north-east of Paris, to London. On arrival at London a landing was made at Shepherd's Bush. : Therdistance is approximately 200 miles, and : the-journey was performed in 6 hours ' il minutes,' or, at a speed of oyer , thirtythree miles an hour. ... J ■A .start; was made from Compiegne at 7.15 in the jnorniiig, in perfect vreather. Coulougne was reached at 10.15. ' ' The balloon crossed the Channel in minutes. 1 French '■! torpedoers, 'eclielonned! trans-channel,' guided the hair loon to Folkestone, but each torpedoer was .outdistanced;' in. turn. ' Tonbridgo was'passed at 12.25, outpacing; the fastest motor-cars, : and. St, Paul's Cathedral at one o'clock,; . M: Clement;' the inventor, was on the balloon during the trip, together with Mr. William Du Cros, representing the Parliamentary Aerial Committee. ■ ANOTHER ACCIDENT. AEROPLANE RUNS AMOK. , Paris, October 16.31. Biallohd, while testing a monoplane at Limoges; in France, developed a: defect.in. his machine, which ran amok among the crowd, killing a girl and injuring several other i persons.. Y