IN THE AIR.

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 1169, 27 April 1910, Page 2

IN THE AIR.

GERMAN AERIAL NAVY LEAGUE

MEMBERSHIP TOTALS 12,000.

ZEPPELIN 11. AN UTTER WRECK

(by electric telegraph—copyright.) |>ek press association.] Berlin, April 26. The membership of.'the' Aerial Navy League in Germany numbers 12,000, an increase of 9000 since 1903. The airship Zeppelin 11., which dragged her anchor at Limburg and was wrecked, has broken in halves. It struck a shed at WeilbeTg. The aft part is hanging on one side of the building, and the forepart has snapped off. The dismantling of tho airship wnl occupy a week. The motors are intact, and it is intended to employ those gas compartments which are undamaged. Paris, April 26. Decatero's aeroplane feat at Dijon, reported in Paris newspapers, is denied. . - (Received April 27, 8.5 a.m.) j Berlin, April 26. j The wreck of the dirigible balloon ! Zeppelin 11. is irreparable. (Received April 27, 9.30 a.m.) Paris, April 28. The aviation contest at Nice resulted in M. Effimoif, a Russian, in a Farman biplane, winning £3000, and Mr Latham, in an Antoinette biplane 1 winning £2"360.