Over and Over.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 57, 29 June 1914, Page 5

Over and Over.

THE RISKS OF THE AIR. HARRY HAWKER UNHURT. , [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] £ United Pbem Association.] (Received 9.15 a.m.) Loudon, June 29. Harry Hawker had a wonderful 'estape at Brooklands. In attempting to loop the'loop, his machine rolled over and over, and dived into the trees. It was badly damaged and Hawker was shaken but unhurt. AEROPLANES IN CIRCULAR PLIGHT. (Received 9.20 a.m.) London; June 28. Mr Asquith paid his first visit as War Minister to Salisbury Plain. Forty aeroplanes at Netheravon rose at intervals of a minute, and followed each other in a circular flight around the camp. As they descended they formed a continuous line in single file. ■ ACROSS THE ATLANTIC. New York, June 26. Lieut. J. C. Porte, of the British Navy, is testing the Wannamaker airship. He has changed the route for the proposed Transatlantic flight, and instead Of going from Newfoundland coast to Queenstown he will go from St. John’s, Newfoundland, to the Azores, thence to the Spanish coast, and north to Queenstown, adding 500 miles to the journey, but taking a safer course. -• * : COLQNEL SEELY AS AIR PILOT. V- ■ !'•■■■ '■ . • . London, May 20. Col. J. E. B. Seely, the former Secretary for (War, whose enthusiasm for aviation is equal to that of Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty., in a speech at a Wilbur Wright memorial banquet, said that the problem of establishing the aeroplane has been solved and he believed this marks the greatest advance since the first aviator had made an ascent. Cql. Seely, told of a test he made four days ago when he accompanied ) a pilot to a height of 2000 feet. When • the pilot abandoned control of the machine Col. Seel^ steered it. The machine turned to jfche right and left like a boat. It always took an appropriate “bank” which was suitable for the sharpness of the turn./ Gusts of wind rocked the machine, but it always

righted itself. The “Times” prints details of an invention, an exhibition of which the King watched at Aldershot, when one of the equerries acted as passenger. The machine was completed fifteen months ago at .the .royal aircraft factory and has since been greatly im- * proved. ' The details of the machine are too technical and lengthy to be satisfactorily dealt with by cable but the main features seemed to.be a spring controlled rudder and the utilisation of the aide created by a side ship. I. ■