AVIATION.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 58, 30 June 1914, Page 8

AVIATION.

THE ATLANTIC FLIGHT. i ! ELECTRIC TEI.EGr.AFH—OoPYKIUHTj [United Prssb Abbooution. i New York, June 29. In the Wanamaker airship, wherewith Lieut. Port hopes to cross the Atlantic, everything is sacriliced to lightness. All the steel bars, including the propeller shaft, are hollow. Some .experts predict that some of those parts, when working at a speed of 3900 revolutions a minute for thirty consecutive hours, will be sure to break down.

Mr W. Oswald Watt, the Australian who has been looping the loop in France, was referred to by Harry Hawker the other day as One of the most brilliant amateurs now Hying. His case disproves the theory that aviation is only for the very young. Ho was over thirty hero re he began to fly, ami that was close on five years ago. He was a pioneer motorist in Australia; the first Englishspeaking aviator to fly in Egypt; the first overseas soldier (lie was a captain in the New South Wales Scottish Rifles) to win the Aero Club's certificate; and the first Australian to loop the loop on the European continent. Incidentally he is the only member ,cf flio Union and Melbourne Clubs who has flown alone. He owns .stations in New South Wales, and was for years A.D.C. to Governor Haw.son.