FUTURE OF AVIATION.
PARACHUTES FOR SAFETY. RECORD OF WAR FEATS. London, Jan. 11. Commodore Maitland, who during the war descended in a parachute over London from a height of .13,000 feet, lectured on aircraft at the Royal Society of Arts. He disclosed the fact that during the war no ship escorted by aircraft was ever torpedoed, while the lives of 750 Englishmen and 800 Frenchmen were? saved by parachute descents from burning balloons. If hostilities had lasted a little longer all aircraft would have carried parachutes. Parachuting was not dangerous. The parachutist travelled 15 feet a second, and landed with a weight, equivalent to that of a jump of four feet. Commodore Maitland said that black parachutes were used in France for dropping spies behind the enemy’s lines at night. The Germans did the same, and caused a lot of confusion by misdirecting our traffic during the retreat of 1918. The lecturer prophesied that the airship of the future would be a big aerial liner. Already one was under construction with sleeping and lining accommodation for 50 persons, and an installation for electric cooking.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TDN19210128.2.54
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Taranaki Daily News, 28 January 1921, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
184FUTURE OF AVIATION. Taranaki Daily News, 28 January 1921, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Taranaki Daily News. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in