AVIATION.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 35, 16 June 1913, Page 7

AVIATION.

A WRECKED MONOPLANE. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association.] London, June 15. Gordon Bell, while monoplaning at Brooklands with Lieutenant Kennedy, a naval airman, as a passenger, sailed at eighty miles an hour. Turning a corner, one of the wings " touched the ground, : and the monoplane overturned. Kennedy's heck was' broken,' and Bell was seriously injured. About 10 o'clock on the morning of May 30, at Warwick, Queensland, the residents were somewhat startled by observing a biplane flying over xhe town. It appears that the machine the-property of Mr Arthur Jones, who recently went to England and spent several months taking lessons, bringing a machine with him on his return. Mr Jones accomplished a run of three miles from his home to the town in 2Jmin, flying at a height of about 500 ft. Ho was loudly cheered when passing over the town. Subsequently Mr Jones gave a private exhibition. The flight was a thorough success.

Two aeroplanes of the Bleriot biplane type are in tho Commonwealth Government store at Darling Island. They are awaiting the arrival from Britain of Lieutenant Harrison, who will be placed in charge of tho aviation instruction corps. It is the intention of the Federal Defence authorities to use the aeroplanes on flat country near Duntroon, where an aviation school, with proper hangars, will he established. No time will be lost in starting the school, and volunteers for training in this branch of the Defence service will be called for from the present militia establishment. The idea is to have a special aviation corps, and the preparations show that the Commonwealth does not intend to be behindhand in this important part of its military equipment.