LATEST IN AVIATION.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1978, 7 February 1914, Page 5

LATEST IN AVIATION.

AERIAL POSTAL SERVICE. • FROM ST.'-PETERSBURG TO THEPROVINCES. By Teleiraph—Press Aesoeiatfen—Oopyr.teht St. Petersburg, February 5, . Preparations are being made- to establish an aerial postal service between St. Petersburg and sis of the provincial towns. An extra tax will bo levied on tho letters darried; tho money so realised will bo applied in tho creation of a national aerial fleet. \ A FOURTEEN-HOUR FLIGHT. ' "Times"—Sydney "Sun" Special Cables. Berlin, February 3. The aviator Herr Lanher established a. record by making an uninterrupted flight of fourteen hours. ROUND-THE-WORLD AIR RACE, "Times"—Sydney ''Sun" Special Cables. London, February 5. The Paris correspondent of f'Tho Times" states that French airmen areinclined to think that tho round-the-world air Tace, proposed in connection with tho Panama Exhibition, is an impossibility, and that man is yet incapable of flying five hundred milo-metres-daily for three months. THE IMPERIAL AIR FLEET. "Times"—Sydney "Sun" Special Cables. London, February 5. A second gift of £1000 has been made by the Shell motor firm to the Imperial Air Fleet Committee's fund of to enable it to provide the first'unrtis' ipr Overseas Dominions' defence. NEW ALTITUDE IUSCUKV. "Times"—Sydney "Sun" Special Cables London, February 5. Mr. Raynham, the aviator, broke trie British altitude record at Brooklands, attaining a herght'of lo,ooQft. (Ree. February 6, 11.10 p.m.) Melbourne, February 6. Mr. Hawker, the well-known Australian aviator, does not think the altitude record is official. "If so," he says, "I will send It two thousand feet higher." TRANS-ATLANTIC FLIGHT. "Times"—Sydney "Sun" Special Cables. (Rec. February 6, 6.p.m.) London, February 5. A Trans-Atlantic aeroplane flight from Newfoundland to Ireland is promised in summer by a special\v-constme.ted flying boat, which is expected to take'fifteen hours in flying across tho ocean at an altitude of 10,000 feet, (Rec. February 6., 10.50 p.m.) London, February 0. An attempt to Cross tho Atlantic from Newfoundland lor tho "Daily Mail" prize will probahly be mado in August or September in a watorplano constructed by Mr. Curtiss on the flyingboat principle. Lieutenant Porto, a British naval officer, will bo one of the pilots, but tho second (an American) has not yet been chosen. Tho machine weighs a ton, and. carries four hundred gallons of petrol. It is fitted with wireless. Mr. Lsdnian Wanamaker, an American, is financing tho scheme.