AVIATION.
A NEW TYPE
“Times and Sydney Sun Services.” United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Beilin, March 8.
A Lanz airship provided with a platform for guns and bomb throwing apparatus, made a satisfactory trial.
BRITISH ACTIVITY
SUPERIORITY IN SEAPLANES,
London, March 3
Mr Churchill announced that the Government were ordering a large rigid airship of the Zeppelin type from Yichers; one of the Astratorrea type from Prance; and three semirigid from Armstrongs. Mr Ohniohlli said the ultlmati development of a naval aerial service would be productive of considerable reductions in other classes of naval weapons. Although the airship programme was modest compared with French and German achievements, we had a great and growing superiority in seaplane service.
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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10891, 4 March 1914, Page 5
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117AVIATION. Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10891, 4 March 1914, Page 5
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