DETAILS OF CAPTURED ZEPPELIN

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXII, Issue LXXII, 9 October 1916, Page 5

DETAILS OF CAPTURED ZEPPELIN

GENEROUS AMERICAN ACTION

WRIGHT BROS. PRESENT PATENT

RIGHTS TO BRITAIN

(Reuter Service.)

LONDON, Oct. 7. A visit to the Zeppelin captured on September 23 has disclosed that, barring slight external injuries, io is practically intact. Experts are studying the details. It has four gondolas, one containing three .engines cf 240 horsepower, and the other ;;or/.lo'as one engine each, also the ca]j._.-.:.'s cnbin with all controls, incluJ:.::^; that for bombdropping, adjaciv,? :o tins being the wireless room, which :s encased in cotton wool and is undamaged. -

An aeroplane newspaper states that Mr ■ Oryille Wright has presented his and Wilbur Wright's patent rights to the British nation. The British Government early in the war paid £15,000 on account; of royalties on naval and military aeroplanes. Orville Wright decided not to renew Jiis patents, so that every manufacturer m the British Empire is free to use same without'royalty.

BERNE, Oct. 7. Colonel Zablonsky, waiting a® to the Zeppelin raids, explained that, they are most frequent on Saturdays and Sundays, the Germans' th.eory being that the English indulge in week-end holidays, so that in general the young airmen who are entrusted with the defence of London leave their posts on Saturdays and return on Mondays. COPENHAGEN, Oct. 7. Captain Hunsted, a Swedish aviator, proposes an Atlantic flight to Newfoundland', via Ireland, using a giant Curtis aeroplane, which, will have six motors, each of 260 horse-power, capable of flying- thirty hours with three passengers.