AERIAL NAVIGATION.

Otago Witness, Issue 2840, 19 August 1908, Page 25

AERIAL NAVIGATION.

LONDON, August 15,

Colonel Capper, commandant of the Balloon School at Aldershot, made a 23 minutes' flight at Aldershot in a new military dirigible airship. He attained a (height of 1000 f t; and demonstrated his contol over the machine by making it describe the figure 8. '

August 16.

Mr Wilbur Wright states that shortly Ihe will compete for the Daily Mail's £10.000 prize.

August 17.

Colonel CappeT made a 20-mile series Of circular flights, concluding with a trip to and from Fitley, with and against a Stiff wind., in a dirigible airship, which ■behaved splendidly

PARIS, August 13

One of the Wright brothers aeroplaned eight miles in eight minutes as a preparatory test to a long flight that is projected.

August 14. When descending Mr Wright touched the wrong lever, causing the aeroplane to , strike the ground slightly and injuring one wing* The mishap has delay-ed the •proposed experiments for pight days. August 15. M. Delajgrange, the French aeroplane Inventor, after having witnessed the Wright brothers' experiments, admits that he was literally disconcerted by what the American machine accomplished. It is far safer and lighter than the French

machine.

BERLIN, August 15

, Major ParsevaTs airship flew round Berlin in 2hr 40min. NEW YORK. August 11. Wilbur Wright's aeroplane mads a fcecond ascent, twice describing the figure

8 in the air.