AVIATION.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13525, 6 November 1911, Page 5

AVIATION.

THE ATLANTIC, TRIP. Press Association.— I Telegraph.—Copyright. NEW YORK, November 5. Melville Vammau, while making an experimental trip in an airship, landed near the seashore, owing to an insufficient gas supply. The propeller was broken, and the airship' sustained other damage. He intends to make another attempt to cross the Atlantic. I OCEAN TO OCEAN FLIGHT. NEW- YORK, November 4. It is practically certain that Rodgers will arrive at: Pasadena, California, on Sunday, thus completing the transcontinental trip. When crossing the Salton Lake, a. cylinder exploded, and Rodgers vol-planod four miles, landing outside the Imperial Junction depot. Ho was travelling 70 miles an hour when the accident occurred. Repairs occupied a day. Rogers, who started from New York on his great ocean to ocean flight, has had a marvellously successful flight, and has long broken the record for distance across country. Part of his -cumey has been covered at the rate of a mile a minute, and his progress has been almost uninterrupted since the start. Fowler, on the other hand, has had the poorest of luck. He started first, and covered nearly 140 miles in his first day. Next dav, however, lie was unable to surmount the. Sierras, and had a nasty fall, which wrecked his machine. Repairs were effected, and he started by another route, going south by way of Southern California and Arizona, hut again ha met disaster. At Tucson, after covering 678 miles of his journey, ho was caught by a gale and carried into the grandstand of the University campus, i the machine being partially wrecked. 'Fowj ler again escaped uninjured. Rogers will 1 end his flight at Pasadena, California, and will thus have made a diagonal flight across the States for a prize of »£IO,OOO.