New British Army Aeroplane.

Progress, Volume IV, Issue 5, 1 March 1909, Page 157

New British Army Aeroplane.

A newspaper has surprised the world with the announcement that the British Army department of ballooning has surpassed all records of aviation with a new aeroplane. It is the result of experiments, conducted in remote parts of the country

for many months. Patriotism inclines us to believe, but prudence makes us sceptical, especially after reading of the last public appearance of the aeroplane which Mr. Cody is perfecting leisurely for the British Army On January 6th the machine was dragged out at Farnborough, in presence of Colonel Capper and some twenty spectators, and performed. For a time the inventor explained the difference between this brilliant success and the previous failures of somewhat similar pattern. Then he careered backwards and forwards along the grroTind v. ith n. sqiiarl of engineers hanging on, and on the return jourrney to the balloon enclosure "the front wheels once left the ground for the fraction of a second " It is at all events clear that the new machine can not have been the offspring of Mr. Cody's brain.