AERIAL FLIGHTS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9638, 2 November 1909, Page 5

AERIAL FLIGHTS.

"DAILY MAIL" PRIZE.

Received November 1, 83.0 a m

LONDON, October 31. Mr Moore Brabazon won the "Daily Mail" £I.OOO aviation pn>e for the first Englishman to fly a circular mile on a British made

machine. The loss on the aviation display at Doncaster amounted to £B,OOO.

Two new German airships are being built. One, which will shortly be begun at the Lanz machine works at Mannheim, is a wooden vessel designed by Professor Schutte, of Danzig. It will be considerably more powerful than the Zeppelins, will have a gas capacity of 19,000 cubic metres, will be driven by motors of between 500 horse power and 600 horse power. The inventor expectp to develop a speed cf from 35 to 45 miles an hour. This vessel is built on the Zeppelin "rigid" system, but the use of wood instead of aluminium will render possible 'the employment of wireless t legraphy, which is impracticable in the Zeppelins. The second new vessel is approaching completion at the works of the Siemens-richuckert Company, near Berlin It is equipped with tour motors of 125 horse power each—Zeppelin If, has engines of 220 hors/v piwer-which the builders think will give it a vastly greater radius of action t'<an that of any airship yet constructed. The vessel, which is of the "non rigid" type, is 420 ft , long, 43ft in diameter, and has a i ga3 capacity of 13,000 cubic metres.