AVIATION.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1041, 2 February 1911, Page 5

AVIATION.

NEW OVER-WATER RECORD. A DROP INTO THE SEA. " By Tclcgrapli-l'ross A««oc!nt.!rt:-Coi]yr!cl!t.-Ottawa, January 31. The Canadian aviator, Sir. M'Curdy, flew from Key West, off the southern extremity of Ihe Florida peninsula, a hundred miles across the Straits of Florida towards Havana. He was compelled to drop into the sea owing to a slight accident to the lubricator?, the oil escaping. Pontoons affixed to the aeroplane held it up, and l>ore it safely, whilo a lifeboat from a torpedo boat, which was following him, picked him up. Ho had reached within ten miles of Havana. An enormous.crowd greeted Sir. M'Curdy at Havana, where later 1 the aviator gave a series of exhibition Mights. Jlr. M'Curdy's trip creates a new overwater record. DIRIGIBLE BALLOON. . AN OFFER TO AUSTRALIA. London, January 31. Mr. Willows, the aviator, desires to take the dirigible balloon. City of Cardiff, to Australia, in order to demonstrate its capabilities to the Defence Department, if the Commonwealth will providesuitable housing ' for the airship and finance him for three months. Mr. Willows is prepared to confer with the Federal authorities in regard to theestablishment of an aviation school. He has approached Sir George Eeid on the subject.