AVIATION NOVELTIES
ANNOUNCED BY BRITISH AIR MINISTER WIRELESS INVENTIONS FOR PILOTING London, March. 13. Brigadier-General Seely (Air Minister), in the course of his (speech when moving the nir vote in the House of Common , !, announced many aviation novelties. There was a new eeaplano with five engines, which carried live tons at a hundred miles an hour. They were experimenting with machines with eight engines, carrying eight tons. Other novel machines will possess unprecedented properties and unparalleled speed. There are new types of commercial flying beats for great rivers. Wireless inventions for piloting machines in i'ojjs and bad weather, if successful, would probably solve many of the difficulties of long-distance flight. The μ-hole resources of the air force would be available to assist civilian aviation.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn. ADMIRALTY'S MAMMOTH AIRSHIP TRIAL FLIGHT MADE. (Eec. March IG, 5.5 p.m.) London, March 15. The Admiralty's mammoth airship R3l, Irailt at Clydeside by Beardmore's, made a trial flight with a crew of thirty. If successful she will an attempt an Atlantic flight as Boon as the weather is suitable.—Ans.-N.Z. Cable A6S'n.
TELEPHONING TO AN AIRMAN
(Rec. March IG, 5.5 p.m.)
New York, March 12.
The New York "Times" Washington correspondent says that Mr. J. Daniels (Secretary of the Navy) has communicated by wiroless telephone with an aviator 150 miles distant—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 147, 17 March 1919, Page 5
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218AVIATION NOVELTIES Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 147, 17 March 1919, Page 5
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