CONQUERING THE AIR.
London, Saturday,
Colonel Capper, commandant of the baloon school at Aldershot, made an ascent in a military dirigible airship. He attained a height of 1000 feet, and demonstrated his control of the machinery by making it describe a figure eight. Berlin, Saturday. Major Parseval’s airship flew round Berlin in 2hrs qomins. Paris, Saturday. M. De la Grange, the French aeroplane inventor, after witnessing the Wright Bros.’ experiments, admitted that he was literally disconcerted by what the Americans’ machine accomplished; it is far safer and lighter than the French machine, he said. London, August 14.
While a captive airship at the Franco-British Exhibition was being inflated, the gas exploded, burning the airship to ashes and wrecking the shed. A man and woman were killed, and several persons were injured, three of them seriously.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 425, 18 August 1908, Page 3
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135CONQUERING THE AIR. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 425, 18 August 1908, Page 3
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