AERIAL NAVIGATION.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3184, 8 May 1909, Page 5

AERIAL NAVIGATION.

CAPTAIN DUNNE'S TRIALS. A DISCLAIMER. United Presß ABSOoiation—By Electrics Telegraph Copyright. Received May 7, 8.35 a.m. LONDON, May 6. Captain Dunne, of the Royal Engineers, the inventor ji an aeroplane which has been tested m the Scottish hills, disclaims having made a flight of twelve miles, as reported. He states that the ,War Office has resolved to confine its experiments to dirigible balloons. The Wright Brothers have sailed for America. They will return to England in the autumn.

ACCIDENT AT ROME. DROP OF ONE HUNDRED FEET. AN AEROPLANE WRECEKD. Received May 7, 9 a.m. ROME, May 6. Lieutenant Calderara, a pupil of Wilbur Wright, the American inventor, while aeroplaning in "Rome, fell a distance of a hundred feet. His aeroplane was wrecked. Calderara was injured in the fall of the machine.

The London "Standard" announced three months ago that secret experiments with army aeroplanes were proceeding in remote parts of Britain, and that success had followed the experiments. The report was discredited ai the time, but the information was evidently sound. The dirigible which has been successfully tried is similar in design to the Nulli Secondus, vvrecKed in a gale last year. The existing record aeroplane flight i<? one of nearly 100 miles, accomplished by Wilbur Wright. Several British aeronauts have been working on aeroplanes, including one by Captain Wyndham, one of the King's foieign couriers, j which was built in P.ance, and I driven by wooden uropeilers.