THE WRIGHT ÆROPLANE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 199, 12 August 1908, Page 3

THE WRIGHT ÆROPLANE.

A SECOND DESCENT.

SUCCESSFUL EVOLUTIONS.

Beceived 11, 8.50 p.m. Willmr to • York ' A «gust 11* Second oai. 8 , aero P' a ne made a » . a ®cent, twice describing fie Jgure eight in the air. g

ThnW'f Pif FPR £40,000. »k in m! 1 ? B '' of Da J' ton > Ohio, la May last were challenged bv Mr. Farmafl, have for the most part preserved secrecy as to the details of their aeroplane; but they are credited on independent authority with <reat S« htß - " wa , B cabled on 10th May from t **?, w York that they had covered 25 .■ nules, partly against the wind. The Wrights, who are keen business Ameri-1 cans last year toured Europe, and it would seem, opened up negotiations for sale of 'heir aeroplane in Paris, Berunhand St. Petersburg. The following •ttiris advice probably explains how Jjrance secured the Wright roachines:ine JScho de Paris announces, under reserve, tfcat.a French company has purchased for £40,000 the secret of the aeroplane invented by the Wright Bros.. of America. This aeroplane is said to have flown successfully for more than I twenty miles, and the purchase is conaitional on the inventors being able to manoeuvre it ovej a space of several miles at a height of 300 yards. The negotiations are said to have takon ptaie when Mr. Wilbur Wright passe-l turngb Pans, on his way to Germany. j f . tllat tlle Ministers, of War and of Marine have promised to buy a dozen of the, machines if they prove suceessful." Some time ago it wag stated that the United States War Department was buying Wright aeroplanes. The British War Office is understood to *>e experimenting- with aeroplanes as well as with dirigible balloons; but the latter, as represented by the Zeppelins, lA Pa trie, Nulli Secundus, etc., have ro I far received the chief attention of the military authorities in Europe.