ÆRIAL NAVIGATION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 72, 15 September 1911, Page 5

ÆRIAL NAVIGATION.

AVIATORS IN MILITARY OPERATIONS. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Berlin, September 13. The manoeuvres took place in cloudless and windless weather, enabling aviators to obtain complete details of the dispositions of the forces. Experts believe that it will be hopeless hencelorth to hide movements from the enemy in clear weather. AX ATRSHIP BURNED. Berlin, September 13. During the manoeuvres near Dimmen an airship was destroyed by fire, but. the crew escaped. ACROSS AMERICA. New York, September 13. Mr. Fowler will continue his flight from San Francisco to New York when a new machine arrives.

An aviator named .las. Ward has started on a llight to San Francisco for a prize of £10,(100. He is following the line of the Erie railroad. ACCIDENTS IX FRAXCE. Paris, September 13. Lieutenant Chantard fell while aeroplaning at Versailles and was killed. Vedrines, the well-known aviator, who was second in the Daily Mail race, fell at Hericourt and was seriously injured. HEAVY DEATH ROLL. Received 14, 11 p.m. Paris, September 14. Chantard was the eighty-fourth aviator and the twelfth French officer killed during aerial flights. He had had only eight days' experience, and met with a treacherous aerial current. He lost control of the. machine, and was pinned beneath the wreckage.