AERIAL NAVIGATION

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7077, 15 March 1910, Page 7

AERIAL NAVIGATION

. AN IRON FLIER TO OARRY PASSENGERS AND FREIGHT. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. LONDON, March 13. At Bornsted, tho engine of a Siemen's and Schuckert's biplane, carrying an engineer and two passengers, failed at a height of fifty feet. A side-wind simultaneously struck the machine, which turned a somersault, and in striking the ground fell on the occupants. The engineer's thigh was fractured. His companions were not seriously injured. An aerial exhibition is being held at the Olympia, Shepherd's Bush. All makers are represented. The exhibition is attracting much interest. (Received March 14, 10 p.m.) LONDON, March 14. Anton Boarder, an engineer of Treves, in Rhemish Prussia, is constructing an iron air cruiser, weighing thirty tons, and designed to carry fifty to sixty passengers and ten tons of freight. This craft, which is to bo named the Troves,, will be launched early in the spring. It is built chiefly on the Zeppelin type, and will have, a speed of forty-four miles an hour. ZEPPELIN DOCK AT HAMBURG. BERLIN, March 13. Six weeks' airship manoeuvres will begin, in Berlin in April next, with the object of training officers and engineers, and; experimenting with ethergraphs and motors. (Received March 14, 10 p.m.) BERLIN, March 14. A company is being formed, with Prince Henry's support, to construct at Hamburg a dock for housing two Zeppelin airships.