ÆRIAL NAVIGATION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 163, 4 August 1909, Page 2

ÆRIAL NAVIGATION.

THE ZEPPELIN MACHINE. ByCaHe.- p. <■ association.—Copyright Berlin, August 2. Count Zeppelin, makiug a continuous journey, travelled in his airship from Friedricbshafen to Frankfort and carried seven passengers. The airsmp, vising through a hail storm to a height of 3000 i'ee't, passed over Uiui, Stuttgart, Hcilbroun, Heidelberg, and iJarmstadt, aad made the journ y Jiuler twelve hours. Received August a, iu.3o p.m. Berlin, August 3. Count iJeppelin attempted to reach Cologne, but a strong wind and a defective motor forced him to return to Frankfort.

THE WRIGHTS RECEIVE £O,OOO. Received August 3, 1) jo p.m. New York, August 3. The Government mjis paid Wright Brothers 30,000 dollars, including a bonus, because the speed of their aeroplanes exceeded 40 miles an hour.

EDISON'S PROPHECY. Received August 3, 0.50 p.m. Now York, August 3. Edison, the great inventor, propnesies that in ten years aeroplanes will carry mails at a speed of 100 miles au liou*.

A NEW RECORD. A 110-MINUTE JOURNEY. Received August 3, 9.50 p.m. Paris, August 3. M. Sommer, o.; a Farman bi-plane, in 110 minutes coveud 70 miles at a height of 80 feet, at the Clialonis camp, vuieb is a. record so far as duration is con* cerned.

THOSE MYSTERIOUS LIGHTS. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. George Mitchell, a resident of Wellington. reports having seen from Island Bay at 9.30 to-night what appeared like a large arc light out to sea, which travelled out of sight. The light was far too high to be mistaken for a light on a ship's masthead. Another person makes an independent report that ho saw a light in the same direction at the same time, and says there appeared to be an opaque body above it. As nearly as could be estimated the lig'nt was about a quarter of a mile from the shore.

Writing to the local press on' the alleged airship mystery in the South island, Mr. D. Munro, of Napier, states that the phenomena is nothing more than tile incandescence which is given olf from a brilliant meteor that is travelling on the surface of a very nense atmosphere. The incandescence is consequence seen to greater advantage than it otherwise would have been. Tlie meteor will be observed in a different latitude each time that it is seen.