AVIATION.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 55, 6 March 1913, Page 5

AVIATION.

DBASTIC BEGULATIONS. London, March 5. The Home Office has defined eight landing areas for airships, including Brighton, Margate and The Wash. It will not allow aircraft to carry guns, and requires two days’ notice to the Consul and 18 hours to the Home Office before arrival. Permits will be issued to continue voyages over Great Britain at a cost of 60s for airships and 20s for aeroplanes from the office. It prescribes a smoke shell and a red rocket as signals of warning. Aviators in prohibited territory, unless they descend, may bo fired upon, and are liable to six months’ imprisonment, a fine of £2OO and a sentence of seven years’ imprisonment if engaged in espionage. A MONOPLANIST’S FALL. (Beceived 9.40 a.m.) London, March 5. Geoffrey England, while monoplaning at Stonehenge, fell 5000 feet. THE MYSTEBIOUS AIRSHIP. (Received 11.55 a.m.) London, March 5. The Admiralty is inquiring for reports from mcrchantment and fishermen of the aircaft seen on the English coast on the nights of the 24th and 28th ult. ENGLAND’S DEATH. England volplaned within 600 feet of the ground, and then overturned. He was found dead in the wreckage. BRITISH RULES. The Pall Mall Gazette says that Europe is rocking with laughter over England’s aerial rules.