AERONAUTICS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 956, 25 October 1910, Page 5

AERONAUTICS.

THE INTERNATIONAL BALLOON RACE. ■, ', . By Telegraph—Press Assooiation-Oopyriirht. Vancouver, October 23. , Tho balloons Azurea, Dusseldorf 11, and America 11, which took part in the race from St. Louis, are missing. --It iel believed tlioy have been lost in the forests of Northern Canada. Belief expeditions start to-day. " ; ' ' Later. Tho missing Dusseldorf' II landed at ICislcisink, Quebec, the distance covered being a world's record. The Azurea landed at Besco, Ontario. The aeronauts on the America II are believed to have landed on an island in Lake Huron. . ; ' NEW,YORK MEETING. New York, October 28. The : English aviator, Mr. GrahameWbite, aviated one hundred kilometres in two hours, talcing first prize in tho distance contest here. Mr., Moissant, the American aeroplanist, flew along a distance of twenty miles across country in a thick fog. Ho steered by a compass. ■ ■- , There was rain and a sharp east wind, and no records .wore made. ' (Rec.'October 25, 0.5 a.m.) New York, October 24. ; No flights 'were made on the second day of the international meeting at Belmont Park, Long Island,; and 7500 ' spectators woro. disappointed. The wind was so strong that only two aviators, Mr. Grahatne-White . and M. Moissant, dared to ascend. Both'came to grief, though without personal injuries. MILITARY. AVIATION IN FRANCE. Paris, October 23. , The Ministry for War.lins appointed'a peruiarient''inspector 'of ' military liero.nautics. • ■'•■ . '-'•■ ,' '■■' ''■

FLIGHT BY M. LEBAUDY,- ; London, October. 28. Tho "Morning. Post's" Paris correspond ■ ent 6tates that M. Lebaudy, in a dirigible balloon, made a two and a, half hours' flight with eight passengers. ■ The balloon circled over the .Nantes Cathedral. . . ' ANOTHER LIFE LOST."'""'" " (Beo. October 25, 0,55 a.m.) ' Paris October' 24. , Captain Madiot, the .inventor of; 1 the mau-lifting kite, has been killed while piloting a military aeroplane at Donai. He fell 300 feet.