STABLING AIRSHIPS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 133, 3 July 1909, Page 3

STABLING AIRSHIPS.

NOVEL HOTELS BEING BUILT IX : BBITAIN. "The Blank Hotel, BriLhton, splendid accommodation for aefoplanes with good starting and landing grounds," is the eort ofUidvertise'meit we shall bo seeing in the daily .papers -not in a few years time, as many v eople might think, but in all .probal&iiity within a very few months, or evoil weeks. "Already an enterprising hotelkooper ot tobham has made sucf an announcement in thenewspapcrs, fid also outside the entrance of his hotelland he is sure to be followed by ma* more. The recent Aero Exhibition lias shown that an aeroplane, guaraiit'celd to lly, and well tested before purchase, can now be bought as cheaply, ttu d even cleaner, than a small motor-ear. f , ACCOMMODATION Ft AEROI'LANj Prices for the best ty] run from two or three I thousand pounds, and aei liKely to be as .popular a iiient this summer as I last year. The Aero Club have already opened a mige'ilyinjr ground on tlib Isle of Sheppey, which i e intended 'o become for aeroplanes as popular a-Sporting centre as Brooklauds is for motir-cars. Large sheds of special pattern suitatdo tor the purpose have alreidy beea erect-ed-for the acconimodat on of twelve aeroplanes. I'ivo well-km w,i "aviators" with their machines Imwb, already taken «p their residence. It is expected that rows of bungalows will shortly spring „,, r q uad lh , ; „ ; ground-some are already under con struction. In the future wealthy .portsmen who have their limiting-boxcs and heir shooting-boxes elsewhere will n | so have an "aero-box" on the Isle of SlicbPCV where they will spend week-ends m Hying or watching others lly. The proceedings at Micppcy durhi" ie next few months wi!J be" 'intensely : ' ■citing, as most of the people e\peri•ncntrag there will b e doing their utmost to qualify themselves to enter for the great Aerial Tournament at fihclms in August, when over ISftOO in prizes will be competed for. The events include In™ and short distance aeroplane racci height compel i- ■ ion, passengcr-enn-viiigjacps and the international Oordon-Bojinctt aviation ■on' !st, for whieh tliren machines from each country can corn,* -. |„ addition to all this, there will hi i dirigible baljoon race, ordinary biffl >on races, and Kite-flying competition^ l!'-;ides the Aero Gil "s great flying Rronnd at Shoppcy, % her aeroplane CH-,,t1-es are being e.tj ished all over Hie country, and crci, % r un-cnterpris--111? War (Mile,, have'awakened su'lh. c:c,il y f or tll(! nollsi | r of th( , sj | "right aeroplanes wideli it has' on order. . At Cowes the district crwneil have ■.eon in correspondence for some time with the Aero Club Inter lational, whose headquarters arc at JTn ,-re in Franco concerning the establish,! .out at Cowes ot a station for landing, ilepartu-» storage, and. the repairs I of flying m,.' •'bines in connection with crow-channel lights, and for practice: and tuition, lie council have promised to render all Hie assistance tliey «pi.AitßiiiCA's Ship's -mi ply for HIKE. \] In I'l-ance and (jerin-Ni most elaborate stables for the grr ■military airships have for' some "tiJ.' been 'established at important poiofes along the frontier, and boffi Powers have largedry docks in appearance something like a canal with the water p„ m ,,cd dry, where injured aerial bat!lH,i ps can'be promptly , vith gas 0f ropn j r( , dIn America n fl Pe t of airships is bein» constructed to n |y for )lifCi just -,„ ° tram or bus between New York and Coney Is and-the "Brighton" of. the n'i ii .I 8 ' A '"-'SC station, higher than the taj| ost sky-scraper, is' being at the «chU c wm bc j,, L orki ' this summe/.. T _nome papek

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