AEROPLANE FLIGHTS

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7141, 31 May 1910, Page 6

AEROPLANE FLIGHTS

M. PAULHAN IN ITALY ! VISIT TO THE BATTLEFIELD OF SOLEEEINO. By Telegraph—Prc33 Association—Copyright. ROME, May 29. M. Paulhan, the French acroplanist, flew from Verona (Italy) to Solferino, twenty-five miles distant. He alighted jon the battlefield, and laid a wreath on the tomb of French soldiers who fell there in 1858, while fighting under Napoleon 111. and Victor Emmanuel against the Austrian*. PROVING A BIPLANE'S STABILITY LONDON, May 29. Lieutenant Dunne made a two and a half miles flight at the Island of Sheppey, Kent, without using the steering levers of his machine. He did this with the purpose of proving that his biplane is automatically stable. AMERICAN LONG-DISTANCE/ RECORD. NEW YORK, May 29. Mr Glenn H. Curtiss won the "New York World's" 10,000 dollars prize for an aeroplane flight from Albany to Governor's Island, New York Harbour. He covered 159 miles in 135 minutes (not including two stoppages). (Received May 31, 0.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, May 30. Mr Curtiss's trip was made in perfect weather. He outstripped a special train following him. The highest point his' aeroplane, reached was a thousand feet. , The journey was a duplication of Fulton's steamboat trip in 1807.