AERIAL NAVIGATION.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 14978, 31 October 1910, Page 5

AERIAL NAVIGATION.

AMERICAN RECORD ALTITUDE.

JOHNSTONE'S' FINE FLIGHT.

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright, NEW YORK, October 29. (Received Oct. 30, at 5.5 p.m.) Johnstone' attained a new altitude of 8471 ft., He acroplaned to Belmont Park from the Middle Island village, where he was blown by a. gals yesterdav. ■ GORDON BENNETT CUP. Hamilton, Drexel, and Brookens have been nominated defenders of tho Gordon Bennett Cup. duties, winner of the cup at Rhsims, was excluded. Aviationists are disappointed at this decision.

CLEMENT-BAYARD AIRSHIP.

• PURCHASED BY, THE GOVERNMfcNT. LONDON, October 28. Tho Government has acquired, the Clement-Bayard airship. October 29. , (Received- Oct. 30, at 5.5 p.m.) The ccst of the Clement-Bayard airship is £18,000. The War Office is ipaymg £12,500 and private subscribers £5500. -

A LONG FLIGHT. PARIS, October 29. (Received Oct, 30, at 5.5 p.m.) M. Tabutean, in a non-stop flight, covered mite round the aerodrome at Etampes in six hours.

ORDERS BY GERMANY,

GUNS TO FIGHT AIRSHIPS.

LONDON, October 28. The Daily Mail states that Germany has ordered 40 monoplanes-, to be completed early in the spring." Krupp's are supplying the Government with six guns capable of throwing shrapnel to a height bf 12,000 ft. '

GORDON BENNETT CUP,

WON BY MR. GRAHAME WHITE • NEW YORK, October SO. (Received Oct. 31, at 0.30 a.m.) Mr Grahamo White, driving'a 100 horse-power Bleriot - Moren machine, travelled at the rate of a mile a minute and won the Gordon Bennett Cup for speed. He covered 'the, course—loo kilometres—in lhr lmin 4 3-ssec. There were eight entrants—three American three English, and two French. Radley and Hamilton were both disqualified for first place for not complying with the rules.

SERIES OF ACCIDENTS.

LUCKY ESCAPES.

NEW YORK, October 30. , (Received Oct, 31, at 0.30 a.m.) M, Leblanc dashed into a telegraph pole, and smashed the pole and wrecked his machine. Ho was injured, but not seriously. Ho was .going at tho rate of TO miles an hour—a world's record,— when a gust of wind drove him against the pole.

Mr Brookins fell 200 ft, the crash being heard a mile away. His machine was crumpled up, and the aviator was picked up unconscious, but no bones .wore broken. He was carried to a hospital, where it was found that his injuries were not serious.

Mr Latham's aeroplane was blown over the crowd's heads, and the people became panic-stricken owing to the proximity of Hie machine. Mr Latham, however, regainod control. He gave up the race in the fifteenth round.

INJURED AVIATOR RECOVERING. LONDON, October 28. The Baroness do Lnroche is recover ing.

In July tho Baroness de Larocho, who last October gained fame by flying unaided in a Voisin biplane, took- her biplane to Rhsims, and attempted to win the ladioV prize. . She wns dashed to earth from a height of 150 ft. Reeeuers found her underneath the wreck of her machine, and she was taken to a hospital between life and death. Her injuries wore fractures of the loft arm a.nd left hip, dislocation of the right arm, a-compound fracture q( the lower part of tho right leg, a fracture cf the left index finger, and severe bruises on tho head 'and body. The theory amongst tho experts was. that a gust had tilted the machine, and that the baroness lost her nerve, and made a fatal mistako by suddenly defiectinnIter elevating planes. The effect of such a movement was-to send a. machine to earth. The baroness withstood tho operation of resetting the fractures with marvellous fortitude.