AERIAL NAVIGATION.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIII, Issue 15, 15 May 1912, Page 5

AERIAL NAVIGATION.

QUICK WORK IN' SECURING A CERTIFICATE. THE NAVAL AIR CORPS. London, May 13. Captain Paine, of the Actaeon, has secured an aviator’s certificate after only four days’ flying. He has been appointed to the Naval Air Corps.

FURTHER FATALJTIES

New York, May 14

An av iator named Fisher, with Mason, a passenger, fell 200 feet at Brooklands. Both were killed. The monoplane burst into flames on the ground, burning Mason’s body.

FLYING MACHINES IN WELLINGTON.

FLIGHTS POSTPONED

AVellington, May 11

A beautifully-made local aeroplane and an imported Bleriot machine are now on exhibition litre. It was understood that flight exhibitions were to have been given by Messrs Y/alsh and Veshuren, who own the Bleriot, and by Mr Hammond, a New Zealander, who has made some line flights in the Old World, but apparently some hitch has arisen, and Mr Hammond has left New Zealand for the time being, and Mr Veshuren, who is a mechanical export, is returning to America. A syndicate that is interested in the venture may get an aeronaut from America to give exhibitions in the Dominion.

FISHER PREVIOUSLY INJURED

(Received 15, 9.15 a.m.) London, May 14

Mason, one of tlx© victims of the Brooklands aviation fatality, was a wealthy American and a friend of Messrs Taft and Roosevelt. Both Mason and Fisher sustained broken spines. Fisher was seriously injured last October at Brooklands.

CONTROL BY WIRELESS

(Received 15, 10.25 a.m.) Sydney, May 15,

Roberts, a member of the Aerial League of Australia, successfully demonstrated that an airship could be controlled by wireless. He directed a model baloon around a hall with wonderful precision.