AVIATION.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 12411, 22 March 1911, Page 8

AVIATION.

LADY CARRINGTON'S ADVENTURE.

LONDON, February 3. British aeroplanes scored a great triumph on Salisbury Plain. From early iii tho morning until darkness put an end to the meeting, Mr Maurice Tetard and Mr Archibald Low made a continuous series of splendid flights with passengers m machines made by the British and Colonial Aeroplane Company, of Bristol. Ambng the passengers was Lady Carrington, who, with Lord Carr ing ton, at first came as a spectator, and later became so enthusiastic that she asked is she. might be allowed to fly. Having borrowed an aeroplane hat, Lady Carrington ascended with Mr v Tetard, and the machine soared hundreds of feet above Stonehenge. Sir George White made an interesting statement with regard to the policy of a foreign Power m the purchase of mili- 1 tary aeroplanes, at a, dinner m Bristol to celebrate the success of the industry m that town. "An agent of a foreign country," he said, " — the name of which I cannot divulge— visited our wbrks at Bristol recently and ordered six military machines on behalf of his Government, with the intimation that if they proved satisfactory . more orders would follow." Sir George pointed out that m the future we should have to keep up the two-aorbplanes-to-one standard m the same way as the two-keels-to-one. '