The Airways.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 31, 6 February 1914, Page 5

The Airways.

RECORD OF ADVANCEMENT UNINTERRUPTED FLIGHT. 1 ! r , ißy Electric Telegraph—Copyright] | [United Press Association.] (Received 8.0 a.in.) Berlin, February 5. | Aviator Lanher established a record for an uninterrupted flight of fourteen hours. i AERIAL POSTAL SERVICE. St. Petersburg, February 5. Preparations are in hand to establish an aerial postal service between St. Petersburg and six provincial towns. An extra tax will be levied °u letters carried, and the amount ’"'ill be applied to the creation of a national aerial fleet.

AN IMPERIAL AIR FLEET.

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London, February 5

A second gift of £IOOO has been made by the Shell motor firm towards

the Imperial air fleet committee’s fund of £IO,OOO to enable it to provide the first units for the Overseas Dominions’ defence ROUND-THE-WORLD RACE. The Times’ Paris correspondent states that French airmen are inclined to think that the round-the-world air race proposed in connection with the Panama Exhibition is an impossibility, as no man is yet capable of Hying live hundred kilometres daily for three months.

BRITISH ALTITUDE RECORD.

London, February 4

Raynham broke the British altitude ;-ecord at Brooklands, attaining a height of 15,000 feet.

A FRENCH INVENTION.

Paris, February 4

Le Matin announces that an inventor named Schmidt,, after four years’ unceasing work, has perfected an apparatus giving a biplane wing variable mcidenco, thus enabling the machine to rise without the use of an elevating plane. Ls Matin believes the machine is capable of a speed of 72,-.. miles an hour, and solves the problem of an aero-omnibus. ~ j PROGRESS IN AUSTRALIA. > I t... Newcastle, February 5. A. Roberts, inventor, is imxirting a model dirigible to carry two passengers. The owner intends building the car framework locally; ~anrrd invites ideas for construction or conmo!.

AIRSHIPS IN WAR.

Paris, February 4

In the experimental manoeuvres, military delegates and aeroplanes are proceeding to Marseilles, and small souarduous of aeroplanes are attacking'the airships.