AERIAL NAVIGATION

Otago Witness, Issue 3112, 5 November 1913, Page 26

AERIAL NAVIGATION

LOOPING THE LOOP. BERLIN, October 27.‘

Pegoud gave an exhibition at Johannisthal, receiving a fee of £1250. Enormous crowds 'were present. Pegoud turned his aeroplane forwards, backwards, and sideways, and double-looped with even greater facility than previously. FREMANTLE, October 28.

Mr Hammond, the New Zealand aviator, was a passenger by the Osterley, which arrived from London to-day. He states that he is prepared to repeat Pegoud’s acrobatic feats, provided :i is made worth his while. He wants £IOOO a week for the job, which, he says, is not as dangerous as it looks. A monoplane will do the trick itself if it is let alone.

Mr Hammond brought a Bleriot mono plane, with him.

NARROW ESCAPE FROM DEATH PARIS, October 31.

The German aviator Stoefflcr and a passenger, while attempting the longest flight in a straight line, were overturned at Versailles at a height of 450 ft. They landed in the trees. - Stoeffler had a remarkable escape, and the passenger was only slisffitly hurt. The Government is inaugurating an aerial post from Paris to Nice covering 525 miles in SlOniin. Biplanes fitted with automatic stabilisalors will be used. GERMAN AIRSHIP DISASTER. BERLIN, October 30. The official inquiry into the destruction in midair of the Zeppelin airship L2 attributes the explosion to the creation of a partial vacuum in the forward car by means of a wind screen eddy behind the screen, which sucked up the escaped gas beneath the airship into the car, where a spark from the motor ignited it. FLIGHT AT AVONDALE. AUCKLAND, October 28. The aeroplane owned by Messrs Miller and Sandford, with the latter as pilot, flew to a height of 450 ft at Avondale today, and in a circular flight covered about five miles. The pilot returned to the starting-point, and alighted safely.