A NEW "NIGHT-BIRD."

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 201, 28 September 1916, Page 5

A NEW "NIGHT-BIRD."

Parisians have been no little startled on dark nights to see numerous brilliant stars apparently careering through the heavens in a most mysterious fashion. These would light up and go out, and occasionally throw a cometlike track of light in all directions. Many believed in some astral phenomenon, but the truth of the matter is that these strange bodies were no mow nor less than a new type of nocturnal aeroplane which th e War Office is experimenting with. For obvious reasons, I am not at liberty to give furter .details of th e new arm, but if all the wonderful things I hear of the "night bird" are as represented, the Germans are going to have the biggest surprise of their> lives, and a complete revolution in aerial navigation is at hand. Battle aeroplanes have hitherto possessed one great drawback—sorry I cannot be more explicit—but this has now been overcome.