IN THE AIR.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 10499, 6 July 1910, Page 4

IN THE AIR.

[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright ]

(Per Press Association.)

Received July 5, at 9.20 p.m. Paris, July 5. Tliere was a great attendance at the Eheims aviation meeting. • The weather at the opening was gusty, with ram, but was afterwards calm. Twenty machines flew simultaneously. There were eight accidents and three aeroplanes were smashed. M. Martinet was badly injured. . , Experts are discussing YV acnter s death, and insist that there is danger in aeroplaning in a strong wind. This possesses a peculiar fascination tor aviators, but overstrains the frames. Count Zeppelin states that the Zeppelin VII. was caught in a whirlwind, causing the subsequent fall. The lesson of the accident is not the building or a different type, but observation of the different weather so as to avoid such winds, as ships foresee and avoid typhoons,

Montreal, July 5M. de Lessops, a Frenchman, circled round Montreal at a height of 2000 feet, covering 30 miles in 49 minutes.