AVIATION.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10132, 31 October 1910, Page 5

AVIATION.

THE CLEMENT BAYARD.

Received Last Night, 5.5 o'clock. LONDON, October 30. The cost of the Clement-Bayard airship, which has been purchased by the British Government, is £ 18,000. The War Office will pay £12,500 of this amount, and private subscribers £5,500.

A BIG FLIGHT

Received Last Night, 5.5 o'clock,

PARIS, October 30

M. Tabuteau, in a non-stop flight, covered 288£ miles round the Aerodrome at Etampes, south-west of Paris, in six hours.

MONOPLANES FOR GERMANY. Received Octoher"_29, 9 a.m. BERLIN, October 28. The Daily Mail states that Germany has ordered forty monoplanes, to be completed early in the spring. Krupps are supplying six guns capable of throwing shrapnel to a height of 12,000 ft.

FLYING IN AMERICA

THE GORDON-BENNETT CUP.

Received. Last Night,, 5.5 o'clock.

NEW YORK, October 29

At the aviation meeting, Mr John stone gattained a new altitude of 8471 feet. He aeroplaned to Belmont Park from a Middle Island village, whence »:e was blown in the gale of yesterday.

Messrs Hamilton, Drexel and Brookins have been nominated as the American team to defend the Gor-don-Bennett Cup. Mr Glenn H. Curtis the winner of the Cup at Kheims was excluded. Aviationists are disappointed at this decision.

CUP WON BY WHITE,

SERIES Ob' DISASTERS

Received this morning, 12.30 o'clock.

NEW YORK, October 30. 3 Mr Graham-White, driving a 100-horse-power Blerior.-Moren machine at the rate of a mile a minute, won the Gordon-Bennett Cup for speed. He covered a course of one hundred kilometres in lbr.'lmin. 4 3-ssecd. There were eight competitorsthree American, three English and two French.

Raclley and "amilton were both disqualified for first place through not complying with the rules. Le Blanc dashed into a telegraph pole, smashed the pole, and wrecked his machine.. He was injured, but not seriously. He was going at the rate of seventy miles an hour—a world's record -when a gust of wind drove him against the pole. Brookins fell 200 ft. The crash was heard a mile away. The machine was crumpled up aid the aviator rendered unconscious, though no bones were broken. He was carried to the hospital, but is not in a serious condition.

Latham's aercplane was blown over the heads of the crowd. Ihe people in the vicinity became panicstricken. Latham regained control of his machine, but gave up the race in the fifteenth round,