AEROPLANING.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 647, 26 October 1909, Page 5

AEROPLANING.

■ BRAVES THE WIND. v/'/'■•';,'ninety: 'miles an hour. " r .''advent OF TnE WOMAN y ; (By Tcleßraph—Press Aasoclatlon-Copyrlffht.) ''"'■' ; /'■;■-.' London, October 24.;, ■, Mr. : Latham mado an extraordinary flight at, Blackpool.; The wind was blowing at' thb rate; pf.\forty;miles.on hour.. , ; . ",'.':': ;HisAntoinette monoplane travelled five miles an hour against the wind and ninety with the wind;::/''• ~'.:■:.■■/.■'.. -"."', ;'•.:;' ' .-.'-.•. ■■'": NO;, others 1 attempted to fly.. !;. '^':;.'.yC^' : -''-- ■'''■''■■" Pan ' 8 ' October .21... ' The-Baroness'Dolaroche, in a biplane, medo ■»■ splendidv'fliEht'of .300 metres .(about 325 yards) at •Chalpns l Cain'p, Rho is.the first wo-.man:to-,venture: alone' on an aeroplane, -:./ '■ '"' v '■ Vienna, October 2i, /Tho.Emperor-Frahcis Joseph and a gather-: ing of 200,000-persons witnessed flights by M. 'Bleriot : in : his;monoplane at Vienna on Satur-' [Any. '■';'■■': !"■'•' j;y '■;'■ .-"".'•■■ ■.■'■"■'■' '■ '•:, THRACE; THE';.EXPRESS TRAINS. ,; j v Safety -.lies, in 'speed."' This linotto is Mr ; Latham's'; own,' and the daring monoplanist ;would:6.cenv to'have given it. a very -fair test.. Last,month M, Taulhan was unofficially, crc;ditod:„with li\ ' miles .an - hour over, a courso ;of. nearly ten ■itulcs/biit Mr. Latham's 90 miles ah 'hour; eclipses, all, ■(/■_■■ -..";.. .:'".-■ \ , ' ' . \ ; Irihis'plansfor winning the" Daily. Mail's/' London .to,.Manchester: prize, Mr. S. .17. Cody proposes; to ■ develop.a high' speed, and suggests eighty miles ah hour..'His plan is to take advantage of a followingwind. "By that,", he says; "I meana.wind blowing behind the aeroplane ;and helping it on its flight. , With, a good wind behind the iioroplano,. I bavo been ' nble to determine,: durjng recent .flights', that; my speed would raopt; probably, reach eighty miles an ;hour. The machine will do fifty miles an hour in a'calm? .'•. A'gopd, Bteady. wind behind - liber should add'another thirty: miles an'hour, I to; her 'srjeed-'.quitd'easily.: •';,:, v!?.-...,-' - : '.:'-' My. big-petrol, tank' will tako: twenty-oight jißttlldns- of .'spirit. ' This gives 'my aeroplane Me longest.range of;flight of any in the world. ;If. tho engines; do not overheat, I can 'go now, for five, hours on' end: without: touching, igrdhhd.. .-But 'I;' shall .not, need ' to. be 'in ' the nir so Jong: in .doing the" Lojidon to Manchester flight;.:; Waiting for.the'wind-I want, and with' ■ the engines developing their full power, I shall ; ,bs iablo ; to-' make' the trip'in two hours -and. : a;halfr/This is-not'guesswork; but carcfyl cal-;culation'.-'V'.v/.';>---;:.>:;'■•'■.-'':: :';.'•'.'■' ,,! ! r-. \v. : \ '.'"I hbpo,(-for-the .'sake.-of a l ' dramatic com;Pn'rison,';that.anTexpress train,- bound for.Man ; .' chcster,- may, be leaving 'London at -the' same ' timo that I start' to; fly ',there. ; . It will ■ be, the ifirst'long-diptahce race -between a train arid la jcraftrdf.thc'nir;' 'All. being well, -I shall beat •tho.train easily.' Theifastest, I soo, cover the, .distance by: rail—lß3l miles—in. a little over !three':"hours and a half.'; Thus I■ should,''at idghty .mile's an hour in: the: air, arrive dt-Man-.chestor ari'hour beforo: the express train can dovtho;'jpur^by.' , V'':.-: , .'v'v';:J-,".'' >;■ •■'■ -'-;'/: :