AIRCRAFT.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXIV, Issue 16358, 30 September 1913, Page 7

AIRCRAFT.

LOOPING THE LOOP

t" Times."—Sydney "Sun" Special Cables. LONDON, September 28.

Pegoud, from a height of 1000 feet, looped the loop four times in succession.

PEGOUD TO TOUR WORLD.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.

LONDON, September 28

Pegoud, the aviator, will shortly make a tour of the world, including Australia. AEROPLANE PARACHUTE. "SAFE ASMOTOR-CARS.'' , M. Pegoud, the plucky aviator who is "looping the loop," recently made a successful descent in a parachute from an aeroplane, and he and M. Bonnet, the inventor, were received by the French Minister of War, M. Etienne, in the presence of General Hirschauer, Chief of the Aeronautic Section of the Army. M. Bonnet modestly explained that ho did not consider the parachute as his "invention."

" I did. not invent the parachute," he said; " others invented it before me. My parachute is just the ordinary one used by aeronauts. The difference consists in its adaptation to an aeroplane. It is composed in part of an air chamber inflated' in a box under the seat of the pilot, and the aviator has only to push a lever to cause the parachute to spread out in five seconds. In another five seconds the aviator is carried automatically from his seat. The whole operation takes some ten seconds." The " Minister of War asked M. Pegoud: "Can you repeat the experiment at any honr, in any kind of weather, from any height, and with all kinds of aeroplanes?" "Certainly," replied the aviator. "I only made a trial descent yesterday, and for that reason I did not rise higher than about 200yds: but I know that the Army aeroplanes have to rise to a height of 1000yds or 1200yds. I shall therefore descend with my parachute from that height." M. Bonnet afterwards discussed a device for the automatic stability of aeroplanes by moans of two propellers partly enclosed in cylinders suggested t>v Captain Perron. He said that the idea was something to be worked out, and might give good results. "Atany rate, my parachute will be of immense use in case of a sudden emergency. I believe that before six months I shall have found a means of making aeroplanes as safe as motor-cars."