THE AGE OF AIRSHIPS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 339, 15 March 1910, Page 5

THE AGE OF AIRSHIPS.

AN EXHIBITION IN LONDON. By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright London, March 13. The exhibition of aerial machine., nt Olympia is attracting much attention. All the leading makers are showing specimens of their work. SERIOUS BIPLANE ACCIDENT. GERMAN AERIAL MANOEUVRES. Berlin, March 13. ' A series of air s'hip manoeuvres, to spread over six weeks, will begin at Berlin in April, for training officers and engineers and experimenting with ethergraphs. The motor of Siemens Schuckerts' biplane, carrying an engineer and two passengers', failed at a height of nfty feet at Bornstedterfed, and a side wind simultaneously struck the mactiine, which turned a somersault and fell. The engineer had his thigh fractured, and his companions were seriously injured.

AN IRON CRUISER. AN AMBITIOUS INVENTOR. Received March 14. 10 p.m. Berlin, March 14. Anton Boarder, an engineer oi Treves, is constructing an iron air cruiser, weighing thirty tons, named after his town, *o carry fifty to sixty passengers and ten tons or freight. It will he launched early in the spring. It will he chiefly modelled on the Zeppelin type. Its speed will he 44 miles an hour. HOUSING ZEPPELINS. AERIAL DOCK FOR HAMBURG. Received March 14, 10 p.m. Berlin, March 14. A companv has been formed, with Prince Henry's support, to construct at Hamburg a dock for housing two Zeppelin aerial ships.