AERIAL NAVIGATION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 122, 23 June 1909, Page 2

AERIAL NAVIGATION.

BRITISH EXPERIMENTS. London, June 21. Col. P. Cody's ncm acroplano made a circular flight for a mile and a toalf at a height of 20 feet. It made three sharp turns at Aldershot. The Morning Post appeals to the public for £20,000 to present a dirigib'e balloou to the nation. France is building four large dirigibles, Belgium one uud Spain one—all French manufactures. Germany is building one with a 500 horse power motor. Tire Earl of Salisbury and others are developing as a substitute for petrol a new English product named hamil, which is made from waste products. It is claimed that hamil is about half i.ne cost of pctrol ) that it is more economical aud that it has less smcli. BIG AIRStITp APPROACHING COMPLI'JiION. TO SAIL FROM PARIS TO LONDON. Received June 22, 11.30 p.m. London, June 22. The' Parliamentary Defence Committee stato that an airship of 227,503 cubic feet gas-holding capacity is approaching completion, Tlrey hope it will sail from Paris to London before tho Parliamentary session concludes. The committee has secured the option of purcliase for the nation. The airship will have two propelling motors, each of 220 hors'e-power, and it will carry petrol sufficient for a 700-miles journey with 25 passengers. Its speed is 35.40 miles an hour. ,

The Daily Mail offers £SOOO to build a garage to enable the airship to remain in England until the test ie made.