ÆRIAL NAVIGATION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 198, 30 November 1910, Page 8

ÆRIAL NAVIGATION.

Writing on progress in aeronautics in the United Service Magazine, Major Ban-nerman-Phillips says:—Science and invention have made such rapid strides in aerial matters of late that nothing should surprise us—even the statement of the Universal Aerial Navigation Company of St. Louis, U.S.A.— that they have on the stocks a "gyroplane" which will be able to carry a hundred passengers, at a hundred miles an hour, within the next twelve months. It is the invention of Mr. J. W. Oman, and is said to be the long-looked-for combination of gyroscope, helicopter, and aeroplane of our dreams, capable of being built to any size from a small family aero-car for touring purposes, to a large machine with seating capacity for a hundred. It will be able, say the inventor and promoters, to rise straight up into the air from either land or water, or can be launched like an aeroplane. Its stability will be such that it will be able to weath«r anything sliort of a tornado—a strong breeze in fact will facilitate its progress through the air. Aluminium is to be largely used in its construction, and if it should materialise according to description, it will be worth while to "wait and see" before we build our British Air-Fleet of the future.