AIRSHIPS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 13708, 24 September 1908, Page 5

AIRSHIPS.

PRIZES VVU-N BY WBlGi* fy«a* A»si>ciation-By Tekg ra[.h-Copy right Received 9.50 p.m., Sept. 23rd. LONDON, Sept. 25. Wilbur Wright by bis latest (light won 'he Am* Club's pri&i of £2OO, and the Miehelin Cup, worth £ow. The first film vhnw-n by the Royal Pictures last night was a notable one, a series of records of a iirst-prir.e flight of Wright Bros. aeroplane. Several views wtrd given of tin* machine, thf large pictures of couree bringing oofc much more detail than th« nevvjfpHj>er photographs hitherto published her**. Thn rmuhiiit) was the fainili.ir one of two h»n£ plant-*, and a >in;>ll»r pair for ,vt«-«rinK. A notable point about it was th*> apparent. in-xiguifie.-ine of tin- t wo-bhidcd pmpelbr. Tb«V .ier« ww ont *,o a rond «n it* bicrclo the nwiw going- (>f |Kmr>fl out. a gv-tkral cltwd of petrol or lubricator wnokrh the machine gal tip a Knod sjxms! on tho r«ad, aud tht» slowly ?uid gracefully Wt ' h(> jrrtmnd and si way Vjver tlw fields, at a Wight of .i fevr "yards from thd ground. la»<-niuf<Kfniphs ttvr<- in tm\ and th«- film of the 1 flight ws« m-ndf tip «>f n huuUkt of *hurt *«cii«m 0.-i«ght by different ws chiiw* It was a m<i*£ int«r>"»tij?s and instructive *ct of j>i«-<fr*w. and pn.babk <||K T( jjrW/d an i'b'-'i of t !lc flight of \ i!i<- macliusd Ss act ua?!y it could I h-iY.< tlotic.