MILE A MINUTE.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1991, 23 February 1914, Page 5

MILE A MINUTE.

MR. SCOTLAND & HIS BIPLANE. »3y' ."Telegrej*;—PreM Association.) ■ , , - --V '■".■ . ' Core, February H.' .Mr. Scotland, the New Zealand avia.tor, successfully ilow in his' Caudron biplane from Invercargill to Gore on Friday .evening, tho flight occupying abqutSt) minutes. Tho average speed was over a miie a minute. His demonstration on tho Goro Show Grounds on Saturday- afternoon was witnessed by a large and very enthusiastic crowd. His rndst successful flight was one of a quarter of an hour several times round tho show ground. The machine, rose to ■a maximum height of about 600 ft;, and .attained a speed of about 55 miles an houK .-_-.; ..- '....;. .- ■ ■ ■ [Commenting on' Mr. Scotland's flight fKni Invercargill'.'to .Gore, a ''Southland .paper says:—i Thi s, is tho-first-occasion ou. which a machine has been flown from one -town to-another.: On all previous occasions the'aviator has returned to the ground from which ho started .after more or less short circular flights. The flight from Goro to Invcrcargill was made ;in thirty • minutes. -'As the distance between the two towns is forty miles, the speed attained averaged eighty miles an hour —a very high speed for a: biplane.. • During the flight the aviator reached an altitude of 1500 ft- Mr.'Scotland will'fly at Dunodiu on Saturday nest, February 28; at Timaru oh March ,5; and at Christthurch on Saturday, March 7.]