GENERAL CABLES.

Grey River Argus, 22 March 1928, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

FATAL TUMP FROM EIFFEL TOWER. PARIS, March 20. Marcel Gayet, a jeweller, who devoted his leisure .to parachute experiments. jumped from the first platform at Eiffel Tower, .186 feel, to demon‘Mrate the efficiency of the parachute, which, however, did not open, and 1 < : :iyet fell like a stone. GERMAN ATLANTIC VENTURE. BERLIN, March 20. Kochi Loose, who turned back last year, .to-day put under trial the Junker’s machine preparatory to another attempt. Tip. first stop will be Baldonnel, to refuel, thence Newfoundland. ‘SLOT-’ SAFETY DEMON STRATION. \ LONDON. March 20. The spectacle of an airman deliberately crashing was witnessed at Staglane, w hen D l Ha Miami, in a Moth, bi’ought the demonstration value of the automatic slot to a climax. Stalling al 200 ft, the machine, instead of nose diving like a stone, remained level, ami struck the ground with a velocity of 6A miles an hour, practical ly wrecked. De Haviland Stepped out unhurt. The manoeuvre normally meant instant death. ITALIAN NORTH POLE EXPEDITION. ROME, March 20. Nobile’s dirigible Italia, returned to -Milan after twenty-five hours 1 trial, which was a complete success. Nobile says that he will take hep to I lie Pole without misgiving. He will probably go to Spitzbergen on April 1. accompanied by sixteen scientists. He hopes to alight on the ice pole, and take possession of any land on behalf of Italy. GIANT SPANISH BOMBER. MADRID, March 20. The latest addition to the air fleet is a giant Junker’s all metal bomber, with two disappearing turrets in the upper part of the superstructure, each armed with two heavy machine guns which may be tired in all directions, ami a third turret in the lower part of Hie .-’u.-elage armed with a single machine gun. I’he eost of the bomber is £20,000. ZOUBKOFF’S LATEST VENTURE. PARIS, March 20. Zoubkoff rei t-'i at ( i s that he and exPrincess Victoria will fly the Atlantic, lit states that he is going to Congo for three months, and will return to Le Bourget to commence a flight piloted by a Russian airman who was on the French front in the wartime.