AVIATION.
& BALLOON MISSING, ■ Fr*u Association—By »Tel.—Copyrirfit BERLIN, Jan. 2. The balloon Hildebraut, with two. men, has been missing since .Thursday lust. It was seen over tb® B<ie Sea, W3T "IIUCH TO LEARN. BecLived 10.50 p.m., Jan; Btd. LONJDON, Jan. .3 Tlie "Times," in an artiole'ori aeronautics in. 1910, declares liiftt flying is still largely empirical. : A ship, a bird, a submarine, a dirigible, it'll Jtavo nn inherent tendency to keep right side up, whilst an aeroplpano does nothing of tho kind but turns turtle on the. slightest provocation. The problem of equilibrium must be solved- if tier much laborious scientific investigation. into each of its component problems before the aeroplane can rank as a scientific machine. . . ■
Fifty pilots' certificates were granted to British airmen in 1910;
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Timaru Herald, Volume XCIV, Issue 14390, 4 January 1911, Page 5
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126AVIATION. Timaru Herald, Volume XCIV, Issue 14390, 4 January 1911, Page 5
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