NAVIGATING THE. AIR
A YOUNG AMERICAN INVENTOR’S FLIGHT.
By Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright NEW YORK, July 13.
Frank Goodale, a youthful aeronaut, starting from New ..Jersey, sailed a dirigible balloon over New York, thence to Manhattan, and j-etnmed to Now Jersey, against the - tcukß manoeuvring his airship-spiendWly. ZEPPELIN AIRSHIP-SHELTERS BERLIN, July 13. Count Zeppelin is arranging for tba enlargement of railway termini to shelter his airships, so as to avoid-4La necessity of special balloon,-halls. NEW BRITISH CRAFT. TO BE INSPECTED BY THEDKENGI (Received July 14, 8.35 -p.m.) - LONDON, July 14. King Edward has intimated that h« will be pleased to inspect the new air. ship over which the Parliamentary Aerial Defence-Committee hae secured an option. The new airship, of 227,500 cubic feet capacity, is approaching completion, and it is hoped the vessel will sail from London, to Paris before ihe I'ariiamentary session concludes. The craft is fitted with two propellers ami- motors o* a new- type, each of 220 horse-power, and carries sufficient petrel for a journey of 700 miles. She will carry twentyfive passengers, and is to nave an average speed of 35.4 miles an hour.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 6871, 15 July 1909, Page 7
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