AERONAUTICS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9393, 13 March 1909, Page 5

AERONAUTICS.

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Ottawa, March 12. Mr Bell, the inventor of the telephone, and the president of the Aerial Experiment Association of Canada, i’a experimenting on Braador Lake with his tetrahedral aerodrome, named the Cygnet 11., which is the fifth hnilt hy the/ Association. One of his associates (McCurdy) maae two successful flights, his aerodrome Silver Dart, aggregating nineteen miles over the ice.

The Dominion Government has invited the War Office’s attention to the experiments. '

London, March 13. Six areoplanes, on Otville Wright’s model, are being built ini England.

The new battleship Temeraire attained a speed of 31.7 knots on her trial trijj.