AERONAUTICS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 14398, 4 January 1911, Page 3

AERONAUTICS.

THE PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED. By Electric Telegraph.—Copvright. LONDON, Jan. 3. The Times, in an article on ‘'Aeronautics, liiln." declare* that flying is largely empirical. A ship, bird, submarine, and a dirigible all inherit or have a tendency to keep right side up. hut the aeroplane has nothing of the kind, and turns turtle on the slightest provocation. The problem of equilibrium must he solved after much laborious scientific investigation of each of its component problems before the aeroplane can rank as a scientific machine. PILOTS’ CERTIFICATES. LONDON, Jan. 3. Fifty pilots’ certificates were granted to British airmen in 1910. A NARROW'ESCAPE. (Received Jan. 4, 12.50 p.m.) NEW YORK, Jan. 3. James Radley, an English aviator, had a narrow escape from death at Los Angeles.