THE ÆROPLANE IN WAR
A DEMONSTRATION AT HENDON. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright London, May 12. Lord Haldane, Messrs Asquith and Lloyd-George, Lord Kitchener, 200 members of the House of Commons, and Messrs Kelly and Buckley, representing Australia, witnessed aeroplane demonstrations at Hendou of bomb-throwing, despatch and machine-gun carrying, quick starting, alighting and other military exercises. . Drexel fell forty feet, but was unhurt, though his machine was wrecked.
Mr. Balfour was a passenger in Grahame-White's biplane,
DESPATCH-CARRYING. Received 14, 5.5 p.m. London, May 13. Hamcl, an aeroplanist, left the flying school at Hendon at 3.55 p.m. with a message for Mr. Haldane. He alighted at Aldershot at 4.20 p.m., and brought Mr. Haldane's reply at 5.35 p.m., after forty minutes' delay due to a slight breakdown.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 301, 15 May 1911, Page 5
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124THE ÆROPLANE IN WAR Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 301, 15 May 1911, Page 5
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