RULES OF THE AIR.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 924, 17 September 1910, Page 5

RULES OF THE AIR.

" ... ' 9 ... ■ — HOW 'AIRSHIPS AVOID; COLLISION. - As the art of flying develops .in England, .it has become necessary to have certain'rules of the air (to correspond . "with rules, of the road , for'.vehicles) so V as to' ensure that when two or more' machines are travelling tho same course ttiero shall bo no. collisions. • Such a rule has been found necessary at tlve big: aviation meetings, as. otherwise: an • aeroplane sailing- along in a steady • breeze might' lose that pressure by anv other machine- "taking the wind out of • its, sails,so 1 to speak. Mr. J. B. Clarkson, who officiated: at : the Wolverhampton. . aviation meeting in July, brought back to Weilington a-c'opy of . tte-rules for. the_:Conduotvof ; t-he meet'ing,which, embodies the one now gener- , ally adopted by fliers., '/This is as fol- ; lows:—-"A competitor. shall-only pass another competitor on the : outside j ; and' on ici; consideration' whatever "shall : the faster-travelling • machine be allowed to pass '.either'directly.. above. or below another machine,, but in every case a space . of at ..least ;75 fwt,.shallj be left between . -. tlief "two'; inacliines:of-'iidif more than. £20 is attached: to a'breach ■ of the; rule.. (- The- difficulty, one would.: imagine, would be in an overhauling - flier," being "able to, judge at a height of a "few: hundred- feet - what7sft; : .of ear space would bo.