AERIAL NAVIGATION

Otago Witness, Issue 2896, 15 September 1909, Page 25

AERIAL NAVIGATION

LONDON, September 8. While M. Lefebore, a well-known' aviator, * was making,-,, a trial Sight '^at "Juvissy' in a nivf Wright biplane -St^a height- of 10 metres- the machine suddenly dropped and dashed to the ground. M. Lefebore was killed. Mr Cody, the British army expert, made a cross-country flight, lasting 63min, at Aldershot. He circled and manoeuvred with the greatest ease at a height of 250 ft. Two aviators at Milan were seriously injured and their aeroplane wrecked. September 13. A successful aviation week has just been held at Brescia (Italy). Mr Curti6s won the prize for the 60 kilometre race in 49min 24sec, and M. ] Rougier was the winner of the high flight race, ascending 380 ft. PARIS, September 8. i Two Paris aeronauts, who were in a balloon, fell en the railway line at i Romaneche as a train was approaching. i The train stopped just in time to save ! their lives. BERLIN, September 7. Herr Rudolf Martin, formerly a Minister of the Interior, declares that a decade hence Germany will have, a thousand dirigibles and a thousand _ aeroplanes. This aerial fleet would be armed with torpedoes, and in the evtnt of war with Great Britain would imperil the British fleet and ports, and facilitate invasion. September 10. The King of Saxony and suite made two flights with Count Zeppelin, one of them ' las-ting two hours. NEW YORK, September 6. Sixty thousand spectators in this city witnessed a balloonist fall from a. height of 1000 ft owing to the parachute not j working. The man was killed. j