IN THE AIR.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume II, Issue 18, 4 January 1912, Page 5

IN THE AIR.

FURTHER IMPROVEMENTS, London, Jan. 3. The new military noiseless biplane on her trials at Aldershot made 60 miles an hour. The propellers can be started by the pilot unaided. Sydney, Jam 3. Hart opened an aviation school at Penrith to-ciav.

The Postmaster-General went for a flight.

Mr. J. Warburton, of Sydenham, has almost completed a flying equipment, upon which he has been engaged for many years. The apparatus is a close, mechanical copy of a pair of bird’s wings, and is used in the same way, giving exactly the same movements., Mr. Warburton claims that he has represented in liis machine all the bones in the wings of a flying bird. He states that when it satisfies him on the bench he will put it to a practical test, and is confident that it will fulfil all his expectations. The under surface, with the wings outspread, will be over 50 square feet. The weight will be about 31b. to the square foot. Bleriot’s latest monoplane carries 81b. to the square foot. Mr. Warburton also claims that his machine gives a supporting surface able to carry double the weight it would be called upon to carry. The total weight, when the machine is made by skilled hands, will be under 121 b. it will cost no more than the ordinary bicycle, and the cost of maintenance will be merely the cost of the oil. Mr. Warburton is a civil engineer by training, has been a supervisor in the Public Works Department of India, and also has had a tiaining on the Rurki hydraulic experiments in India.