ÆRIAL NAVIGATION.
CABLE NEWS By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.. ’ United frees Association.
ATTEMPT TO CROSS THE ATLANTIC. London, June 12. Melvin Yaniman, who was associated with Walter Wellman in tho tatLei ’s unsuccessful attempt in tho halI -on flight across the Atlantic, has a riled for New York for the purpose of completing a dirigible, 263 feet in length,' and 'costing £30,000, wherewith he proposes to cross the Atlantic in October and carry a crew of five. Vaniinan, in an interview, said that i'libber'-coated fabrics were so perfect that it was easy to stay in the air for thirty days. Tho real difficultwould be to prevent tho balloon rising to an extreme height wlien, the rays of tlie sun expanded the gas; lie thought they had solved that difficulty. A “MAORI CHIEF” GOES UP. London. June <!. Woodward, while aeroplaning et the White City, carried Metapnp'ki a Maori chief, as passenger.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 96, 13 June 1911, Page 5
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