AEROPLANE TRIUMPH.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2190, 14 May 1908, Page 1

AEROPLANE TRIUMPH.

The remarkable flight which. Mr Henry <Far.man accomplished on Unis aeroplane at Paris at dusk on March 20—-. which, according -to the more trustworthy of half a dozen estimates may be put at a mile and 750 yards, covered in three minutes forty seconds' —was eclipsed on March 21 by Mr Farman himself, who experimented before the committee of the Aero Club, and covered a distance of about two miles, and a half in about four minutes. {But what was probably more remarkable than Mr Farnian’s exploit was the attempt made by M. Delagrangc to carry two men on bis aeroplane—which is approximately a reproduction of Mr Furman's. M. Delagramge chose Mr Farman as his partner. Mr Farman fixed himself in the rigging above M. Delagrange’s shoulders, and 1 the machine was set in motion. The result disappointed! some of the spectators, but gratified all the aeronauts who saw it. The machine .succeeded' in several flights of twenty yards or more, which, though no great feat in appearance, was enough to show that two persons can fly in an aeroplane to-day, so far as, and with greater ease and certainty than, one alone could fly two years- ago.