ÆRONAUTICS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2760, 15 March 1910, Page 5

ÆRONAUTICS.

A FALL IN GERMANY. United Press Association —Copyright BERLIN, March 13. The motor of Licman’-s and Scliuckert’s biplane, carrying an engineer and two passengers, failed a-t a height of 50ft, at Bomstedt-erfed. “A side wind simultaneously struck the machine, which turned) a complete somersault and fell on the occupants. The engineer's thigh was fractured, and his oompanions, were seriously iniured. MILITARY MANOEUVRES. Six weeks’ airship manoeuvres begin at Berlin in April for training- officers and engineers ,and .experimenting with ethergraphs. AERONAUTICS IN ENGLAND. LONDON. March 13. An exhibition of aerial machines at Olympia is attracting much attention. All -makers, a,re showing speciment-s of their work. AN IRON AIR CRUISER. (Received March 14, 10 p.m.) BERLIN, March; 14.

Anton Boarder, an engineer of Treves, is constructing an iron air cruiser weighing thirty tons, named after the town, to carry from fifty to sixty passengers, and ten tons of weight. It will he launched early in the spring, and will he chiefly cf the Zeppelin type, witli a speed of 44 miles an hour. A PROPOSED AIRSHIP DOCK. A company has been formed, witu Prince Henry’s support, to construct at Hamburg a dock for housing two Zeppelins. A CHRISTCHURCH AEROPLANE. TPer Press Association.! . CHRISTCHURCH, March 14. A young resident of Addington, em--i ivod in the railway department, and at present acting-fir email on the llangiora line, who lias been experimenting with flvjng machines, has constructed a model of an aeroplane. It has two rows of small planes, with 15 in each row, and looked at from above or below it resembles a diamond from which the top and bottom points have- been cut off. leaving six sides. The young experimenter has selected his model out of six that he tried. He says that he reckons to get considerably more littine Dover out of it than can be obtanioY from biplanes of the same- dimensions now in use, and that it will he lighter and stronger than those now built. will not be so wide, and will take no less space. A working machine would he driven by a- 50 h.p. engine and would have two propel 1 ors.