AERIAL NAVIGATION.
GERMAN' FLYING FUND. THE YEAR'S BALANCE-SHEET. By Gamble—Press Association—Copyright Berlin, February 25. The German national flying fund in 1913 received £301,725 and expended £107,075 in prizes, £87,613 in training pilots, £38,903 in insuring pilots and £24,000 in the erection of flying centres and seaplane stations. There were 30,817 resulting in twelve fatalities, and 115 machines were damaged. THE TRANS-ATLANTIC FLIGHT. London, February 25. Lieut. Porte, of the British Naval Flying Corps, is willing to pilot a transAtlantic aeroplane which Mr. J. Wanamaker has agreed to finance. LOST IN THE CLOUDS. Sydney, February 20. Hawker, flying in dull, rainy weat her, took five passengers aloft and got lost in the clouds, hut Ilawker confirmed his marvellous control of the biplane in practically any weather conditions.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 205, 27 February 1914, Page 5
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126AERIAL NAVIGATION. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 205, 27 February 1914, Page 5
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