AVIATION.
"LOOPING THE LOOP." By Telegraph—Press Association—Conyricht "Times" —Sydney "Sun" Special Cables. London, 'February 4. Mr. Hamcl, the aviator, gave a command exhibition of "looping the loop" before tho King and Queen and other Royal personages at Windsor. Thousands of people assembled in tho vicinity. ' The aviator made fourteen loops, including two double turns, in seventeen minutes, and then volplaned on to the lawn in front of tho Royal party. EXPERIMENTAL MANOEUVRES. "Times"—Sydney "Sun" Special Cables-., Paris, February 4;. Experimental manoeuvres with military dirigibles and aeroplanes arc proceeding at Marseilles. Small squadrons of aeroplanes are attacking airships. IMPROVING THE BIPLANE. "Times"—Sydney "Sun" Specfal Cables. (Rec. February 5, 5.35 p.m.) Paris, February 4. The newspaper "Lo Matin" announces that an inventor, named Schmidt, after four years of unceasing work, has perfected an apparatus giving the biplano wing a variable incidence, and enabling it to rise without tho use of ijie elevating plane. "Le Matin" believes that the biplano is now'capable of a speed of r>oventytwo miles per hour. Tho invention solves the problem of tho aero-omnibus.
TO CARRY TWO PASSENGERS, (lice. February 5, 8.15 p.m.) Sydney, February 5. Mr. A. J. Roberts, the inventor, is importing a model dirigible to carry two passengers and the owner. Ho intends building tho car framework locally, and invites ideas for the construction or control.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1977, 6 February 1914, Page 7
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220AVIATION. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1977, 6 February 1914, Page 7
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