SAFEST AIRSHIP MADE.
A BRITISH PRODUCT. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Pees* Association.! London, May 21. After fifteen months' experiments, the Royal aircraft factory has produced a biplane that is declared to be the safest yet constructed, being able to fly uncontrolled. Colonel Seeley states that its stability is entirely duo to its shape. It has been submitted to all danger tests with perfect safety. It is understood that the Government will keep the design a secret. The King, after witnessing an exhibition of the • flights, exclaimed, “Why haven’t you a hundred of these , u ” Times and Sydney Sun Services. (Received 8 a.m.) London, May 21. A stable army aeroplane was successfully tried by Colonel Wigram at Aldershot, in the presence of their Majesties, the King and Queen, lire controls of the elevator and rudder were never touched in the machine.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 26, 22 May 1914, Page 4
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140SAFEST AIRSHIP MADE. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 26, 22 May 1914, Page 4
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