AERONAUTICS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 144197, 13 September 1913, Page 3

AERONAUTICS.

BRITISH AIR FLEET. DESCRIPTION OP VESSELS. ST ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. —COPYRIGHT. LONDON. Sopt. 12. The Standard states that all the British airships designed are capable of cruising sixteen hundred miles at full speed on one charge of petrol and able to ride at anchor unharmed in a hundred miles hurricane. , The gas bag admits of a combination of rigidity and flexibility, and also entire deflation in four minutes. The ships have six propellers. Lords Pembroke, Ruthven and others have formed a trust fund tor presenting the first airship to the Admiralty. AN ALTERED PLAN. BERLIN, Sopt. 12. Count Zeppelin had accepted the Kaiser’s invitation to attend the manconvres aboard the LI. Circumstances caused the alteration of his plan at the last moment. AUSTRALIAN AIR CORPS. TIMES—SYDNEY SUN SPECIAL CARLES. (Received September 13. 8 a.m.) LONDON, September 12. Hawker is returning to Australia in November, taking a Sopwith hydroplane. Major Raleigh, formerly of Melbourne, has been appointed second in command of the Aviation Corps' at Farnborough. 'A BIG DEATH ROLL. (Received September 13, 9.55 a.m.) LONDON, September 12. Aviation in Europe has been responsible for 23 deaths during the week, including those lost in the disaster to tho Zeppelin LI. ■DARING DISCOURAGED. LONDON, Sept. 12. ST. PETERSBURG, Sopt. 12. Lieut. Ncstoroff has been punished by thirty days’ detention for tho useless audacity of his feat of circling in tho air.