AERIAL NAVIGATION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 267, 1 April 1911, Page 10

AERIAL NAVIGATION.

LADY CARRINGTON'S ADVENTURE. • ' London, February S. British aeroplanes scored a great triumph on Salisbury Plain. From early in the morning until darkness put an end to the meeting, Mr. Maurice Tetard and Mr. Archibald Low made a continuous series of splendid flights with passengers in machines made by the British and Colonial Aeroplane Co!, of Bristol. Among the passengers was Lady Carrington, who, with Lord Carringto'n, at first came as a spectator, and later became so enthusiastic that she asked if she might be allowed to fly. Having borrowed an aeroplane hat, Lady Carrington ascended with Mr. Tetard, and the machine soared hundreds of feet above Stonehenge. Sir George White made an interesting statement with regard to.the policy of a foreign Power in the purchase of military aeroplanes, at a dinner in Bristol to celebrate the success of the industry in that town. "An agent of a foreign country," he said, "the name of. which I cannot divulge, visited out works at Bristol recently and ordered six military machines on behalf of his Government,' with the intimation that if they proved satisfactory more orders would follow." Sir George pointed out that in the future we should have t» keep up the two-aero-planes-to-one standard in the same way as ths two-keels-to-one.

RECORD FLIGHT. Paris, February -2. Captain Bellinger, an army officer, }ms made, tire most remarkable cross-country flight in the history of aviation. He accomplished the aerial journey from Paris to Pau with only three stops. The airman left the aviation camp at Vitieennes at 5.45 yesterday morning, halting at Pont Leroy for brenkfast at 10.30, and Poitiers for lunch at 1.30. He arrived at Bordeaux shortly after five o'clock. Captain Bellinger started on the last stage of hit journey at ten minutes to three this afternoon, and arrived at Pau in exactly two hours. The total distance down was nearly 500 miles.

SEVERE ACCIDENT. London, February 3. Mr. CI. de Hnviland, the young aviator who is attached to the staff of the war balloon factory, met with a severe accident yesterday afternoon while flying in his aeroplane at Farnborough. Tie was descending after a successful flight, and. landing too near a roadway that crosses the common, his machine crashed into the embankment. ft was badly smashed, and the aviator was thrown out, but luckily ascaped with some rather severe bruises and a bad shaking.