NAVIGATION OF THE AIR.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9087, 12 May 1908, Page 5

NAVIGATION OF THE AIR.

CABLE NEWS.

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SUCCESSFUL FLIGHTS

Received May 11, 8.20 a.m. NEW YORK, May 10. The brothers Wright, in their airship, covered twenty-live miles in North Carolina, partly against the wind. PARIS, May 10. Mr Farman's aeroplane has made several successful flights near Paris. Mr Cortland Field Bishop (President of the Aero Club of America) has a very high opinion of the Wright brothers' aeroplane. According to the New York "Herald," he stated that while Americans were immeasurably behind Europeans in aeronautics as a nation, two Americans, the Wright brothers,[of Dayton, Ohio, were ji>st as far ahead of the world. Both Mr Bishop and Mr Frank S. Lahm declare that the Wright brothers have actually solved the question of aerial navigation beyond any question, and that their flying machine is so far ahead of all other air craft of the kind that there is no room for comparison. "There is no question whatever," said Mr Lahm, who visited the Wright brothers' establishment last year, "about the success of their flying apparatus. They have a machine that will make pretty close to, if not quite, a mile a minute when going with a moderate wind." Mr Henry Farman, son of a British newspaper correspondent in Paris, began his series of remarkable successes with his "heavier-than-air" machine on October 26th, when he traversed a distance of nearly half a mile in 53 seconds. A great feature in all Mr Farman's experiments has been his complete control over the aeroplane, enabling him to make a circular course almost as easily as to fly a straigh course. On March 21st last Mr Henry Farman travelled a mile and a-half in his aeroplane at a height of six metres (19 feet).