AERIAL NAVIGATION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 223, 20 March 1914, Page 5

AERIAL NAVIGATION.

A MONOPLANE DESTROYED.

By-Telegraph—Press Association.

, ! " s ( '. Wellington, La3t Night. "A." W.''S(!hacf's'monoplane was tutou. "■de'stfoye'd'by 'Are last night with the' shed'in' which ,it, .was housed at Lyall Bay, " 'Mr Schaef had been employed early in the afternoon effecting repairs to 'the parts damaged by a side-slip ci the beach on Monday afternoon, but s he needed; some tools $q continue openi tions he returned to town, lea/;ng : charge.Mrßoyd.whom he had asked get..ao,rae glue ready for him by tan time, he returned. The glue was to be Jieated by a brazing-lamp, and \'• '<. ;Schjief.,was away it is understood that Bpyd fqund some difficulty in getting the -lamp gpijig; in the windy'air outside vhe «hcd. ,He therefore went inside, and heated the .burner up with tome rag soaked,in kerosene. He then began i •pump air into the lamp. Unfortunately .the.jet had:become blocked in some wav, and .when the obstruction blew awav ■ttnder,.thj pressure of air it was fol•tawed by a jet of kerosene. This igniteu, ■and struck a Sack under the enijiue, from the carburetter of which benzine had been dripping. . The sack blazed un. ■with dry grass around it, and immediately the engine and front of the aeroplane were in flames. , The engine was mined, and the whole structure reducedto ashes and twisted ironwork.