AERONAUTICS.
J. B. Holland, of submarine boat fame, has been talking airships. He has been at work on an airship, and anticipates within five years being able to attain a speed of 100 miles per hour. Three airships out of cix he has _built have, he&n successful.
G. H. Curtis, of New York, in an. aerc« plane of his own, invention, flew 339 yards in 19 seconde, or. 27 .miles per hour. Count 'Zeppelin's latest airship,. No. 4,cost £20,000. ft is Wit long, and tho balloon's diameter is 50ft. Three Daimlers! engines, earh of 140 h.p., drive the ship.-j which the count expects to attain a epee<J' of M mUes per hour and travel 1430 miles without landing. It will be provided with searchlights for night travelling, and a complete apparatus -for sending and receiving wireless tele* graphic messages
[Presumably this would be the airship whioh the cable informs us was destroyed by a gale of wind.]
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Otago Witness, Issue 2840, 19 August 1908, Page 63
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