AERONAUTICS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1004, 20 December 1910, Page 5

AERONAUTICS.

FLIGHT FROM ENGLAND TO •' ' 'Belgium. i£s'saci&tibß i'Us • ' _ .London; December . 18,- . M. .Sopwith, in'; an \ aeroplane,- crossed';'' V,?;;from the.-Isle, of Shippey, hear the mouth of-'the Thames, to Belgium, •" White, ,was at IVa Dover; pf«paring';to' cross,the-Channel, tn-plaiie was' blown, over, and' 1 fell' -fifty feet, '«:v ; ' ' ' Grahame.TWiite''enstitined concus-' sion.of the brain, but-is -progressing tarw-W ourably, j^:Vy .-T:V. 5 'A BRITISH-MADE AQCHINE. ;• \.(Rec, December io,-10.10 p.m.)'.'.' ■ London, December 19. - -Jr.-'Sdpwilh,' in his 'flight, .used a "bi« plane with'-a' monoplane' tail.,-The machini : .;;• was-of British with a BrW tisi EiN.y..-.motor. It. has covered -177. miles in-the: de "Forest contest,: which i 3 open till tho ( cud of the year. ■ : \~Vv / v-i Graharae White's concussion is only..' : I slight", and Kc,'is ; 'recpvering... • ■' .'"'&]}%■/, '6J lasi year;. Baron th'p Aero'idiib • oM*©* tl)o, united Kingdom 'a- prize of- .£4OOO i to' w r iff"''/!>« ae"'lbngyfc'y;.e& flight from England to the, Continent, tha'-'f: -SVi distance: to bo<nieaSureii from--the-'starting r.'e point (to the-point'Of/descent;. open frbai'.Januarv '1 to Da.-i'fioS cember: 31, 1910.. 'AH', the parts of machine have to be-made within the Bri-'■?■?■■■ tish 1 Empire.'. : The' entrants - must -bo Brv ; ' : tish subjects. . -■■. 1 .-,u«j