ÆRIAL NAVIGATION.
THE AIRSHIP FATALITY. By Gable—Press Association—Copyright. New York, July 14. The explosion on the transatlantic airship Akron, by which the brothers Vaniman and others lost their lives, was due to faulty construction allowing the gas to escape from the balloon over the engine exhaust. A SIXTEEN HOURS' FLIGHT. Paris, July 14. The airship Couti has made a sixteen hours' flight. ROYAL FLYING CORPS. London, July 14. Lady Loraine, desiring to see the fulfilment of the ideals of her late son (Captain Loraine, who was killed whilst raonoplaning at Stonehenge a few days ago) is urging the immediate raising of not only a national but also an Empire fund to make a gift to the Crown to place the Royal Flying Corps on a permanently sound financial ba3is. A RECORD FLIGHT. Received IG, 12.15 a.m. Paris, July 15. Vedrines, at Rheims. in a Deperdussin monoplane, covered 125 miles in Ihr. lOinin. osec, establishing a record.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 49, 16 July 1912, Page 5
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156ÆRIAL NAVIGATION. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 49, 16 July 1912, Page 5
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