AERONAUTICS.
NEW ALTITUDE RECORD. . By Telegraph—Press Aesociation-Oop jright Brussels, August 2. M. Tyck, a Belgian, aeroplaned at Brussels at a height of 5500 ft., which is a record. [The previons record for altirudo was 4354J feet,, established by W.Brookins, in a Wright biplauo, at Indianopolis, on June 12.] BOMB-DROPPING TESTS. London, August 2. English officers, experimenting with balloons over the Thames, proved that bombs were effective when dropped from a height of 200 ft., and wnen the balloons were travelling at a speed of 18 miles an hour. . LONG PASSENGER FLIGHTS. Paris, • August 2. ' 11. Farman, with threo passengers, aeroplaned a distance of sixty-five miles at Mounnelon, in the Department of Marne.
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 886, 4 August 1910, Page 5
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