AERONAUTICS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1144, 3 June 1911, Page 5

AERONAUTICS.

AUSTRALIAN AVIATORS. Br Telegraph—Press Assoeiation-CoD.vrtsM Melbourne, Juno 2. Two brothers named Duigan raado a successful flight of half a ratio on a".biplane of their own invention. A representative of the Federal Defence Department witnessed the flight. MEMORIAL TO M. BERTEAUX. Paris, Juno 1. The Council-General of Algiers, as a memorial to M. Berteaux, French Minister for War, who was killed at Issy by an aeroplane, offers ,£IO,OOO for an aeroplane covering a distance of SOO kilometres without a stop, and carrying a ton of war material. , PARIS-TURIN RACE. (Rec. Junp 3, 0.30 a.m.) Rome, Juno 2. M. Garros, the competitor in tho Paris-Romc-Turin aeroplane race whoso machine broko down near Pisa secured a new Bleriot aeroplane, and has arrived safely hero. BRITISH WAR AEROPLANE TO CARRY 1000LB. Discussing his plans for building military aeroplanes in conjunction with M. Bleriot and Sir Hiram Maxim, Mr. Claudo Gvahamo-Whito said a few weeks ago:— "\Y<> shall set ou'Tselvcs the task, at Hendon, of constructing a very powerful war machine, capable of dropping bombs in a manner that will nmaa) thoso who aro still apathetic. "Wo shall build an initial machine which will bo capable of raising into tho air a load of explosives weighing 10001b., in addition to tho pilot and tho engineer, who will attend to tho releasing of the bombs by means of special mechanism. What theso explosives will be, and how their effect will bo governed, will be Sir Hiram Maxim's business. His knowledge of such matters is second to none. Our preliminary work will bo largely concerned with tho production of a thoroughly effective incendiary bomb. "Imagino a squadron of fifty such aeroplanes as we shall build, belonging to a foreign Power, and flying over London upon a destructive mission, ready to drop more than twenty tons of incendiary bombs upon the city. Is this any longer a dream? It is not. It is becoming, very rapidly, a possibility that it is our duty to face. Consider what damage would bo dono by fifty such machines. "It should 1m possible for a war-aero-plane, even with the present engines, to remain aloft for six hours, with an appreciable supply of destructive bombs, and cover a distance, without descending' of 300 miles. 'These figures are not speculation; they represent facts."