AERIAL NAVIGATION.
EXPERIMENTS IN BRITAIN. OPPOSITION CRITICISM. MR HALDANE IN REPLY. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright. Received August 4, 9 a.m. LONDON, August 3. Experiments with Wright's aeroplanes will be started at Alclershot shortly. Mr R. B. Haldane. Secretary for War, stated in the House of Commons that the firm of Vickers, Sons, and Maxim was constructing a very large dirigible balloon of the Zeppelin type for the Admiralty, capable of carrying twenty persons. The Army would shortly have three non-dirigible balloons, including the one presented to the nation by the "Morning Post." The Estimates would enable the Admiralty to spend £35,000 and the Army £36,000 during the coming year.
Replying to criticism by Opposition members that Britain was behind other nations in balloon invention, Mr Haldane explained that flying machines were very simple, and it was impossible to keep designs secret. There was therefore no cause for anxiety. •-
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9560, 5 August 1909, Page 5
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150AERIAL NAVIGATION. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9560, 5 August 1909, Page 5
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