AERIAL NAVIGATION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 171, 19 January 1914, Page 5

AERIAL NAVIGATION.

' NEW ZEALAND'S AKROPMN^;(| .SUCCESSFUL FLIGHTS. /"f| By Tclegraph.-Press Association. ,^H Auckland, Last Nigh&il The initial flight in New Zealand* the Bleriot monoplane Britannia, w&ebaj was presented to the ■ Defence was made at Epsom yesterday srts.sl noon by Lieut. J. J. Hammond, of Sml Royal Flying Corps. For a an hour he had the machine in, the &M thoroughly testing it as a preliininSS'S to a public exhibition on Anmvendftjfll Day, January 28P He took tho nwffllpl out again this morning, and for abSS an hour was Jlyiiig above the citr iflK| harbor. Yesterday's flight was madeM! a strong wind, but without mishap. 0$ Hammond climbed nonchalantly ia&M his sent, started the engine, and save tfoft signal, and after a short run; it rMrif sharply into the air, and circled arotjSfra seven or eight times at a height oF|p few hundred feet, iking and falling fotfj a manner that displayed the absolute * command over the machine. He CnighAl,' the flight with an easy landing. *qb4 a time he travelled at a speed of-iirl least SO miles an hour. V-f-The flight over the town this ing was entirely unexpected. Mr Ham» v | mond circled over the Exhibition «j%s tlien soared over the harbor. .Seelfinift out the warships IWhe and Philomel,! he dipped as a mark «f respect to tfo'k white ensign, and after having MiluttffS H..AI.S. Pyramus, (lie monoplane whedasj| citywards again, and flew by wav ."jStS Mount Eden to the showgrounds »*«».? she made a beautiful descent. The fliflMjHl occupied nenrly t, tt hour, and m, ordeal to let the people see the maehinvttSd Hammond kept as low a> possible. T&M 1 engine worked perfectly the whole ttSil but the planes were not answeringSiVJ pcrly to the controls. 'Hie rudder ftaft-J elevator planes were, however . asthmas properly, and Mr Hammond was able isjj do some pretty evolutions. Onco -MkM "bunked" the machine at an anglo oj&l OOdeg.. that is to say, he had tin- win«l at.right angles to, instead of paralfii| with, the earth. In the language dgS airmen, this is called "standing her oil her wing-tip." r,'S