AERIAL NAVIGATION.
GIFT AEROPLANES. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. London, June 12. Lord Desborough appeals for £IO,OOO enabling his committee to present each oversea dominion with an aeroplane, as the nucleus of an air fleet. He adds that the New Zealand Government appreciates the committee's gift as a great encouragement. A SENSATIONAL FLIGHT. Received 13, 5.5 p.m. London, June 12. The Astra airship, on her maiden trip at Farnsborough, when at' an elevation of 11,000 feet, began to drop alarmingly, owing to a flaw in the mechanism regulating the gas pressure. When earinf' the ground the crew threw out the ba'hst and checked the fall. A hundred I>l jackets seized, the land ropes anil I'i-i vented a collision with the aeroplane shed. The aeronauts were safclv landed.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 12, 14 June 1913, Page 5
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125AERIAL NAVIGATION. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 12, 14 June 1913, Page 5
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