AVIATION.

Grey River Argus, 18 July 1922, Page 5

AVIATION.

AIDING FISHERMEN. LONDON, July 15. The Air Ministry is co-operating with the Scottish Fisheries Board in a series of experiments off Scotland, in locating herring shoals. Three aeroplanes, operating from a base in Fifeshire, will carry Fishing Board exports as observers. When the shoals are observed, information will be sent immediately to the Scottish fishing ports enabling the boats to proceed di rcet to the spot. The French, American and Canadian Governments are carrying- out similar experiments suecessfuly, but the water off the Scottish Coast is more opaque. PLANE CRASHES. (Bee. July 17, 9.50 p.m.) PARIS, July 17. An aeroplane bound from Strasburg to Paris crashed in flames in Alsace. The pilot and four English passengers, including two women,, were killed.

BRITISH OVERTURES. TO GERMAN AIRSHIP MAKERS. BERLIN, July 17. H-err Schutte head of the Schutteland Airship firm, declares in the “Berliner Tageblatt” that the Germans want to assist the British scheme for the manufacture of airships in England. He says:—“A representative of Britain" has asked me to migrate to England with a staff, to build airships there. A British firm then to organise and operate an England to Australia air route. I refused.”