AIR=CONQUEST.
AEROPLANE AND BALLOON TRIUMPHS.NEW FRENCH RECORD. SEVENTY MILES IN 110 MINUTES. (By Telegraph,--Press Assodallon.-Oopyrleiit.) (Roc. August 3, 0.65 p.m.) ' parts, August .V , At the Chalons camp M. on a Farman biplane, covered 70 -miles in 110 minutes, at a height of, 80, feet. This is a French record in point of duration, THE WRIGHTS EARN, THEIR REWARD.
OVER 40 MILES AN HOUR.
EDISON ON "HEAVIER-THAN-AIR" \ FUTURE. . (Rec. August 3, 9.55 p.m.) 1 New York, August 3 i . Tliti Wright Brothers in their aeroplane; trials having fulfilled the United States Government's tests, the Government has paid the Wrights 30,000 dollars (£6000). This inolttdes o, botiUS wWoh the Gdverlimoht pays because the Speed exceeded 40 miles an hour. Mr. T. A. Edison prophesies that in ten years aeroplanes will carry, mails at a speed of 100 miles an hour. , '
ZEPPELIN'S DIRICIBLE BALLOON.
. ' ANOTHER LONG TRIP. 1 Berlin, August 2. , Coimt Zeppelin, in his airship, ,is making a continuous '-journey froni'Friedrichshafcn t6 Frankfort, with seven ■■ The airship, rising through a hailstorm to a hoigiit of 3000 ft.; passed over Ulm, ; Stutt-' gart, HeilbroUn, Heidelberg, and Darmstadt, making tlie journey under twelve hours.
RULES THE AIR, BUT, NOT THE WIND.
'■ MOTOR DEFECT. (Rec. August 3, 10.20 p.m',) 1 . . . Berlin, August 3. Count Zeppoiifi attempted • to reach i Cologne,, but a strong wind, combined with a defect in the motor of his airship, forccd liirn to roturu to Frankfort. ,
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 577, 4 August 1909, Page 7
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235AIR=CONQUEST. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 577, 4 August 1909, Page 7
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