AERONAUTICS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LVIII, Issue 14346, 26 October 1910, Page 3

AERONAUTICS.

LANDMARKS EOR AIRMEN. Bv Electric Telegraph.--Cativrii'h' LONDON, Oct. 25. Tho Dail Mail's Paris correspondent states that for the benefit of aviators whitewashed figures sixty feet square, the first figure showing the distance north or south of Paris, and tho second figure tho distance east or west of tho Paris meridian, aro being established at every village, beginning with tho route from Paris to Chalons. HIGH FLYING. NEIVTORK, Oct. 25, Drexcl made an American altitude record of 7105 feet. There will probably be a dispute, as Drexcl was not entered for the contest,-