TWO AVIATORS KILLED.
(Press Assn.— By Telegraph.— Copyright.) PARIS, February 10. Noel and De Latorre, after completing an hour's flight m a new military machine m Ardennes, were descending m a volplane, when the balailOintf gearings dropped oft' and fell. The rush of the machine caused it to overturn, horribly crushing the aviators beneath the motor. Noel was killed instantly, and De Lattore was so severely injured that he died two minutes afterwards. LONDON, February 3. Britain's naval scouting airship No. 1. which has been 12 months building at Barrow-in-Furness, is Hearing completion. She will have a length of 510 ft, a diameter of 48ft, and a cubic capacity of 700,000 ft. It is expected that the motors will be capable of developing a speed of 50 miles an hour. The craft will be fitted with a powerful wireless equipment. Great secrecy is being preserved regarding other details, and only constructional officers are allowed to approach the veeseh PARIS, February 3. The municipal authorities at Issy arc erecting on the spot where the French airmen Luffot and Marquis were killed a monument to the memory of the aviation heroes of all nations. Farman is completing for Clifford Harmon an aeroplane that the latter intends to use m a flight across the Isthmus of Panama. The machine is being built on the lines of the model with which Farman made his world's endurance record BERLIN, February 3. The military dirigible Gross 111. urcended this morning. It watt Announced that her destination was Uotha, but it is understood she will go on to Strassourg.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 12378, 11 February 1911, Page 2
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