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MARCH 13, 1909. NEWS Royalty at the Aero Show. IT is announced that it is the intention of H.R.H. the Prince of Wales to pay a visit to the Aero Show at Olympia, which will open on Friday next. The Government and Flight. ON Thursday of last week, Mr. Haldane, the Secretary of State for War, in his speech introducing the Army Estimates in the House of Commons, touched upon the subject of flight, and as this no doubt reflects the opinion of the Government upon the situation at the present time, we reproduce his statement in full. After dealing with various matters relating to the re- organisation of the Army, Mr. Haldane said :— " The Government have thought it right to consider the question of aerial navigation very carefully. It was referred to the Committee of Imperial Defence, and the Army and Navy experts came to definite conclusions as to what should be done. The First Lord of the Admiralty informs me that the Naval authorities are at present con- sidering the pattern of the dirigible balloon they will order. The Army authorities are going in for dirigible balloons, and we are considering the best pattern. As to aeroplanes, we have begun negotiations with private inventors, and we think we have reached the stage when progress, will be more rapid by dealing with private inventors than if we confine ourselves to the work of our own very capable officials, who have not the scope and range which many private inventors have. It will be a good while, however, before the aeroplane will be an efficient instrument in war." Wright's Visit Postponed. THE visit which the Aeronautical Society expected from Mr. Orville Wright this month, to receive their gold medal on behalf of his brother and himself, has, we learn, been postponed until later—June probably—by which time it is possible that Wilbur Wright himself might be able to find time to come over also. In the meantime, Orville and his sister are in Paris superintending the erection of the aeroplane which will be taken to Rome, whither Miss Katherine will accompany both her brothers. King Edward and the Wrights. ON Friday of this week, it was quite within the bounds of possibility that, should the circumstances be favourable, His Majesty King Edward, taking advantage of his close proximity to Pau, would motor over from Biarritz in order to witness a flight by Wilbur Wright. The War Office and the Wrights. WHEN the Wright Brothers do visit England, probably in May or June, it will be to accept the invita- tion of the War Office, which has been extended to them, in view of the very favourable reports which have been furnished by the British military officers who have been watching the experiments in France on behalf of our military authorities. It is quite on the cards that the flights will be made on the Aero Club's new ground at Sheppey. Wilbur and Orville Wright—Doctors of Science. THE Technical High School of Munich has con- ferred on the Brothers Wright the honorary degree of Doctor of Technical Science, in recognition of their services to flight. The Wright Agency. As a result of the information which was made public last week relating to the first purchasers of the Wright aeroplanes, the Societe 1'Ariel has officially announced that all such sales have been made through them as exclusive concessionaires for the sale of the Wright flyers in France, and that the purchasers, whoso- ever they may be, must necessarily take delivery of their machines in that country. ; ••,-•-.-' -;•-,,:• :-• : v Charpentier Aeroplane. A YOUNG naval architect of St. Malo, named M. Charpentier, has constructed a flying machine which he has designed to be especially adaptable for marine use, his intention being that it should form part of the equipment of large ships. Floats have therefore been embodied as a permanent feature of the apparatus. Santos Dumont and his " Demoiselle." ON Tuesday, March 9th, Santos Dumont recom- menced his experiments with his miniature monoplane, " La Demoiselle," when he succeeded in making a flight of 500 metres. A very high speed was necessary to effect a flight with such a small machine, and in landing the elevator was broken, but the damage was not serious and Santos Dumont himself was in no way hurt. Goupy at Buc- LIKE M. Bleriot, M. Goupy has also gone to the Buc aerodrome, and, moreover, he has taken with him a new machine, a biplane which he has had constructed by M. Bleriot but according to his own designs. In certain respects the machine resembles the Bleriot monoplane in constructional details, but it is a biplane. It weighs 300 kilogs., and is fitted with a 25-h.p. R.E.P. engine driving a four-bladed tractor screw in front; a biplane with a tractor screw is something of a novelty. At its very first attempt this new machine flew 200 metres at an altitude of i\ metres, while on Tuesday of this week, when it made its second attempt, it flew the same distance at an altitude of 6 metres. M. Goupy piloted the machine himself. Fournier Enters for the Cross-Channel Prize. OUR contemporary, the Daily Mail, announce that they have received an entry from M. Fournier for their Cross-Channel Prize. M. Fournier is about to experi- ment near Calais as soon as he has taken delivery of his Voisin machine, which will be tested on the Issy ground. In all, the Daily Mail have received eight entries for their contest, the names submitted being Mr. Moore- Brabazon, Captain Wyndham, MM. Antoinette, Voisin, Pischoff, Lejeune, Fournier, and Prince Bolotoff. Bleriot No 11 Enlarged. As we announced in our issue of February 27th, M. Bleriot has increased the supporting surface of his short-span monoplane No. 11. The original area as published in our Table of Aeroplanes, which appeared in FLIGHT of January 2nd, was 13 sq. metres; the present value is 14 sq. metres. With this machine he flew a circular 1^ kiloms. at Buc on Tuesday. More Entries for Monaco. Six further names have been received by the secretary of the Monaco Meeting as entrants for the flying competition. The Marquis d'Equevilly has entered an aeroplane having 25 sq. metres surface and a 25-h.p. 144
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