NO PILOT.
BUT ’PLANE FLEW.
LONDON, Nov. 14. The "Marseilles correspondent of the Times says that a Braquet military biplane, without a pilot, but controlled by wireless has completed successful tests. . It took off, manoeuvred in tlie air, and landed 11 times without mishap. The official trials committee has accepted tlie machine which will shortly leave for Paris. MAN-DRIVEN MACHINE. LONDON. Nov. 13. The Daily Mail says that Captain Victor Dibovsky, formerly of the Imperial Russian Air Force, claims to ‘have invented a _ man-driven apparatus imitating a bird in flight. He is building a lightweight metal contrivance on a full scale with flexible wings. The operator’s action causes the wings to flap, while the hands impart a feathering motion, thereby enabling the combined movement found in birds.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 306, 29 November 1927, Page 8
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127NO PILOT. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 306, 29 November 1927, Page 8
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