AVIATION.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 100, 1 September 1913, Page 5

AVIATION.

TWO NEW MACHINES. NEW BAMBOO BIPLANE. | By Electric Telegr,‘aph—Copyright ) Times —Syeney Sum Special Carles (Received V!.U a. m.) London, August 31. King; Wong, a student at the London University, a ml who had previously studied in Australia, lias invented a new typo of biplane. Ho is returning to China, and proposes to construct the machine of bamboo. He hopes to outstrip all European aviators.' TO CARRY FOUR PASSENGERS. [By Electric! Telegraph—Copyright [Uniter Press Association.] (Received 9.50 a.m.) London, August 31. Graham© White has a new biplane with a span of 75 feet which seats four passengers. The machine resembles a. motor car. It has been successfully tested. AX EIGHTY-MILE FLIGHT. (Received 9.45 a.in.) London, August 31. Hamel Beat Hawks by thirty and three-fifths seconds in an eighty miles challenge Right at Birmingham. THREE BTPLAXERS HURT. (Received 9.55 a.in.) London, August 31, Three aviators, Debusys, Dehavillan d.and Crouch, flying in a biplane from Hendon to Farnborough, fell fifty feet near Maidenhead. The machine somersaulted. Debussy was seriously hurt, and the other two sustained fractured limbs.

FLYING AT AVONDALE

[Per Press Association.] Auckland, August .31

-V successful aeroplane flight of about a mile distance was made on Saturday afternoon at Avondale, by a machine owned by a local syndicate. The flight was made at an altitude of about 130 ft, and after about a mile bad been covered the biplane, which is of the Furman typo, came to earth without mishap.