ÆRIAL NAVIGATION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 164, 5 August 1909, Page 2

Æ RIAL NAVIGATION.

PLANS OF BRITISH WAR OFFICE. STATEMENT BY .MR. HALDANE. By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyrigh London, August 3. Experiments with a Wright aeroplane be started at Aldershot shortly. Mr. Haldane, Secretary ot State for War, speaking in the ilouse of Commons, said Messrs. Vickers, Sons and Maxim are constructing a very large dirigible balloon 0 f ti l( , Zeppelin type for tlie Admiralty, capable of currying twenty persons. The army will shortly have three non-rigid dirigible balloons, | including the Morning Post's airship, j He estimates that tne Admiralty wi.l | be able to spend C3J,0110 and the'army CHti.iKltl during Uu> coming year. Replying to the criticism of the Opposition that Britain was behind oilier nations, Mr. Haldane explained that Hying machines were very simple and that it was impossible to. keep the designs secret, therefore there is no cause for anxiety.

THE MYSTERIOUS LIGHT. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Fcilding, August 4. The mysterious light in the sky became visible from Feilding last night. ]'t was seen in the eastern sky about 0.30. It is described as being very nrilliant, but having gradually floated awny out of sight. The opinion of those who did not sec it is that it was the planet Mars, which has been very brilliant at the rising lately. Napier, August 4. Napier had an attack of aerialitis last night, a mysterious light being visible in the heavens shortly after 7.30 and thenceforward for a couple of hours. At varying intervals it hovered in the western sky in the early part of the evening, but later moved' eastward, and was finally seen due north.