AVIATION.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 65, 25 March 1913, Page 7

AVIATION.

ACCIDENT TO AN AIRSHIP. (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.! 8e11i.., March 19. A squall at Karls Ruhr broke a military airship in two. AN AVIATOR KILLED. Rome, March 19. Captain Moreno, while aeroplaning in Lombardy, was killed. BRITAIN’S PREPARATIONS. London, March 20. Colonel Seely says that the problem of slow flying is much more important than a speedy one to Britain. Aeroplanes able to fly eighty miles an hour should be reduced to forty. Since May army officers have flown 82,000 mile® in 1559, hours. The exaggerated difficulties of hitting an aerial target have, been overcome. High-angle lire is now possible with case and accuracy, removing the dread of airships.,

BRITAIN’S THE BEST,

London, March 19. Colonel Seely, in the House of Commons, said the War Office proposed to establish seven squadrons of eighteen aeroplanes each. They would not require Zeppelins because the army would be an expeditionary one. Britain possessed the best aeroplanes in the world. One biplane this week averaged over 91 miles an hour.