AVIATION.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 88, 18 August 1913, Page 5

AVIATION.

DAILY MAIL £SOOO PRIZE. TBy Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association.] ,■ \» ~ London,, August 17. A hydro-aeroplane test next Satur-lay'-has-been promoted by the Daily Mail for a prize of £SOOO. All are to be British; competitors. o.ite will be from Southampton;.aidist';a:i«re of stktjeen hundred miles,;-.and must be completed in sevGniyUwo hours, including compulsory halts and ialf-an-hour at Ramsgate, Yarmouth, ?ca rboraugh, Oban, Dublin and Falmouth. ONLY TWO COMPETITORS. ' . , ' m M (Received 9.50 a.m.) London, August T 7, Owing to Cody's death and-Rad-iey: s retirement, there will be only two competitors for the Daily Mail's flight to determine whether the British made engine is equal to the task. A MILE A .MINUTE. Hawker, on a Sopwith biplane, ac- . •ompanied by Kauper, an Australian . mechanic, left Southampton and reachr sd Yarmouth in four and a-half hours. Kiev averaged a mile a minute. McLean, a rival, on a Short bidane, of 100-horse-power, with a companion, Green, had fixed cylindrical engines. A NAVAL FLYING CORPS. London, August 17. The Admiralty has invited two hundred lieutenants of the fleet to volunteer for a naval air wing of tho Royal Flying Corps. GERMAN BALLOON FIRED ON. Paris, August 17. A balloon at Metzeler ascended south-east of Berlin and drifted into Russia, where it was fusilladed. Two hundred shots were fired, and the balloon was damaged. . The occupants were uninjured, but have been arrested for espionage.