MISHAPS TO AEROPLANES

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 11 September 1923, Page 3

MISHAPS TO AEROPLANES

HAS GERMANY’ A SECRET INVENTION USE OE WIRELESS RAYS SUGGESTED (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). (Australian & N.Z. Cable Association). LONDON, Sept 8. The Daily Mail says: Has Germany devised secret means of forcing aeroplanes to descend, is a- question the British expect at Vienna in view of the extraordinary mishaps lo aeroplanes at Nuremlnug. Twelve aeroplanes lielonging to the France Roumanian Company have been forced to alight on German soil when carrying passengers and mails. There are more of these mishaps between Prague and Stias'-urg than on any other of the company's routes. They generally occur near the Firth aerodrome, outside Nuremberg. Pilots and passengers are forthwith arrested and the machines confiscated, before the pilots have time to ascertain the cause of the engine failure. It is recalled that Germany in May hist. warned other countries that civil aeroplanes would not. he allowed to land on German territory.

Britain experimented with' wireless control of aeroplanes in war time, hoping to frustrate air raids on France. American experiments, it is understood, have reached an advanced stage.

One pilot suggests that the Germans nee using wireless rays to melt certain metals, especially nil connections. One pilot at Firth found the solder of the feed pine melted.