AVIATION.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LX, Issue LX, 31 October 1910, Page 5

AVIATION.

JOHNSTON'S RECORD. HEACHED AN ALTITUDE OF 8471 FEET. • • EY CABLE— PRESS ASSOCIATION— COPYRIGHT. NEW YORK, Oct. 29. Johnstone attained a new altitude of 8471 feet. He aeroplaned to Belmont Park "from the Middle Island village whence he was blown by the gale yesterday. Hamilton, Drexel and Brooking have been nominated as the defenders of the Gordon-Bennett Cup. Curtiss, the winner of the cup at Rheims, has been excluded. Aviationists are disappointed at this decision. ■ ' COST OF THE CLEMENT-BAYARD. LONDON, Oct. 28. The cost of the Clement-Bayard airship was £18,000. The War Office is ■ paying £12,500 and private subscribers £5500. ' GRAHAM-WHITE'S SUCCESS. A MILE A MINUTE. NEW YORK, Oct. 30. Graham-White, using a 100 horsepower motor on a Bleriot-Moren machine, covered a mile in a minute, and won the Gordon Benett Cup for speed. He covered the course of^a hundred kilometres in 1 hour lmin 4 3-ssec. There were eight entrants — three American, three English, and two French. . > Radley and" Hamilton were both disqualified for first place for not complying with the rules. INCIDENTS OF THE RACE. SOME NARROW ESCAPES. NEW YORK, Oct. 30. Le Blanc dashed into a telegraph pole. He smashed the pole and wrecked the machine. Le Blanc was injured, but not seriously. He was going at a speed of 70 miles an hour, a world's record, when a gust of wind drove him against the pole. Brooking fell 200 feet. The crash was heard a mile away. His' machine was crumpled up, and the aviator was found unconscious, but no bones were "broken. He was carried to the hospital,' but his injuries are not serious. Latham's aeroplane was blown over the heads of, crowds of people, who -were panic stricken at his proximity. Latham regained control, but gave up ■the race in the fifteenth round. 23 AEROPLANES FOR RUSSIA. (Received Oct. 31, 8.30 a.m.) ST. PETERSBURG, Oct. 30. The Russian Government has ordered 23 aeroplanes from various makers. UNITED STATES ORDER 10 FARMANS. (Received Oct. 31, 8.30 a.m.) PARIS, Oct. 30. \ The United States Government is negotiating for ten Farman aeroplanes. SIX HOURS IN THE AIR. > PARIS, Oct. 29. M. Tabuteau, in a non-stop flight, •covered 288J miles, encircling the aerodrome at Etampes for six hours. LE BLANC. (Received Oct. 81, 9.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, Oct. 30. Graham-White declares that Le Blanc would have won the trophy if an accident had not occurred, Le Blanc attained a speed of 5 kilometres in two minutes forty-four v seconds. AN ASCENT AT PALMERSTON. PALMERSTON N., Oct. 30. The Beebe Balloon Company were at Palmerston on Saturday, and Albert - Eastwood made a successful ascent, reaching the height of 5900 feet, then making a double parachute descent and landing safely in a side street of the towh v The weather was perfect for the ascent, which is claimed to be the best ever made in the Dominion.