AVIATION.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 53, 4 March 1914, Page 5

AVIATION.

A BRITANNIA AIRSHIP.

[B* Electric Telegraph—CopyriohtJ [United Pbess Asboomttow., London, March 3. The Britannia airship committee has ' opened an appeal for funds in India, Canada, and the Australian States, and offers to construct a'similar vessel . &y the cost price of £15,000 for AusWJitlia or New Zealand, and all Britishmade with many new features. Mr Churchill will accept a Britannia for the Navy if the appeal is successful. THE NAVAL PROGRAMME. London, March 2. In bringing down the Supplementary Naval Estimates, Mr Churchill announced that he was ordering a large rigid airship of the Zeppelin type from ' ; Vi'.'ker's',' one Astratorres from France, h «nd three semi-rigids from Armstrong's. - • Mr Churchill states that the ulti- . m>te development of the naval aerial service will be productive of considerable reductions in other classes of nnval weapons. Although, he said, the airship programme was modest as compared with the French or German , achievements, we had a, great and growing superiority in ihe seaplane service. AN ARMED AIRSHIP. Times and Sydney Sun Services. , Berlin, March 2. The Lang airship is provided with a platform for guns and bomb-throw-iing. The apparatus has made a satis- , 'factory trial.