CONQUERING THE AIR.
NEW MILITARY AIRSHIP. Received August IP, 4.10 p.m. LONDON, August 15. Colonel Capper, commandant of the balloon school at Aldershot, made a 23 minutei flight at Aldershot in the new milifcuy dirigible airship. He attair ed a height of 1,000 feet, iind demonstrated nis control over the machinp, by making it describe the figure eight. SUCCESSFUL GERMAN INVENTION. BERLIN, August 15. Major Pars-vs-Ils airship flew round Beilin in 2nr 40min. WRIGHTS' WONDER. M. DELAGRANGE'S OPINION.
PARIS, August 15. M. Delacrrnnee, the well-known French aeroplane 'inventor, in _an interview said that after having witnessed Wripht Bros', experiment he must admit that he was literally disconcerted l»v what the American machine had accomplished It was far safer and lighter'than the French machine.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9168, 17 August 1908, Page 5
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123CONQUERING THE AIR. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9168, 17 August 1908, Page 5
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