ÆRIAL NAVIGATION.
AN AIRSHIP BURNED. London, August 14. U liilo a captive airship at the Frauctillritish Exhibition was being inflate}, tlie gas exploded, burning Hie airship to ashes and wreekmg tnc shed. A man and a woman wens Killed mid several others Jajured, three seriously. BRITAIN'S DiIUGiDLE AIRSHIP. A SUCCESSFUL FLIGHT. Received 10, 4.10 p.m. London, August 15. Colonel Cupper, commandant of the balloon school at Aldershot, in a new military dirigible airship, attained a height of 1001) feet, and demonstrated ilii; control of the machine, making it describe thvi figure eight. A GERMAN AIRSHIP. ENCIRCLES BERLIN. Received 10, 4.10 p.m. Berlin, August 15. Major Perseval's airship Hew round Berlin in 2 hours 40 minutes. WRIGHT BROTHERS' AEROPLANE.
FRENCH AUTHORITY AMAZED. Received 10. 4.10 p.m. Paris, August 15. M. De la Grange, the French aeroplane inventor, after he had witnessed Wright Bros.' experiments, admitted that he was literally disconcerted by what the American machino accomplished. It is, he says, far safer and lighter than the French machine.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 203, 17 August 1908, Page 2
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167ÆRIAL NAVIGATION. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 203, 17 August 1908, Page 2
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