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APRIL 24, 1909. Test of Aero Engines. THE trials of aero engines, instituted by the A.C. de France, will take place as follows :—May 3rd-8th, Esnault-Pelterie engine; May ioth-i5th, Gnome; May I7th-22nd, Esnault-Pelterie; May 24th-2c>th, Farcot; and May 3ist-June 5th, Renault. Prize Offered by Count Zeppelin. COUNT ZEPPELIN has offered a prize of 10,000 marks to be awarded to the smallest dirigible which shall, during the time that the Frankfurt Exhibition is open, succeed in making five flights of not less than half an hour each and carrying two passengers. Nancy Exhibition. N. DE SALVERT, who has contracted with the organisers of the Aero Exhibition at Nancy to give a series of flights, during his experiments last week at Chalons, came to grief on his Voisin-Delagrange bi- plane. Fortunately, he only injured his foot slightly, whilst his machine was mainly damaged near the elevating planes. _ :. An Aerial College at Friedrichshafen. ; " ONE of the works which is being energetically pushed forward by the German Aerial Navy League is the foundation of an aeronautic college at Friedrichshafen, close to Count Zeppelin's headquarters. It is hoped that the new college will be ready for the reception of students on October 1st. It will be in charge of Lieut-General Nieber, and the students will undergo a three years' course. During the first the instruction will be purely theoretical; this will be followed by twelve months in the workshops ; and the last year will be spent in dirigible ascents and experiments with aero- planes. A Society of Encouragement at Chartres. UNDER the patronage of the civil and military authorities, a Society of Encouragement of Aviation has been founded at Chartres. The Society has secured a flying ground on the Beauce plains close to Chartres, on which they are erecting workshops and hangars for the housing of aeroplanes, &c. Mr, Cortland Bishop in Europe. THIS week Mr. Cortland Bishop, the President of the Aero Club of America, arrived in Paris on a visit partly connected with aeronautical questions of Inter- national import. Volery nee Aerodrome. As our readers know, following an example set by Prof. Langley, a number of experimenters in the U.S.A. persist in designating their machines "aerodromes." It has therefore been necessary to find a new name for the %m& grounds, and our American contemporary Aero- nautics has brought the word " volery " into use. American Army Views on Aeroplanes. ACCORDING to a despatch from New York, the experts- of the American Army are inclined to ridicule the idea of airships or aeroplanes dropping explosives on an> enemy in time of war. The opinion held is that such machines will be chiefly useful for scouting purposes- and for making observations. "Wellman Expedition. MR. WELLMAN is apparently determined to make- another attempt to reach the North Pole this year, at least he has announced that with nine members of his party he will arrive at Chistiansund at the beginning of next month, and he expects to start from Spitzbergen for the Pole at the commencement of July. C J. Glidden takes to Flight. ^ v ~ •••'-- AFTER having diligently and for many years investi- gated practically every inhabited spot on the Globe by the aid of his trusty Napier car, that veteran American traveller, Mr. Chas. J. Glidden, is turning his attention most assiduously to flight. At the moment he is not actually contemplating mastering the art himself, although . we should not be surprised to hear of him at the helm of a flyer before long. He has in the meantime, however, become President of the Aerial Navigation Company of America, which is to run airship passenger services in the States, and in order to keep in touch with his craft by the' most approved methods, he has already had installed in his apartments at the Hotel Somerset in Boston a complete wireless telegraph apparatus capable of trans- mitting over a range of 1,000 miles and of receiving messages from distances of 3,000 miles. Mr. Glidden. is himself an expert telegraph operator. Firing at Balloons. • —, WITHIN the next few days some important experi- ments are to be carried out on Salisbury Plain by the 12th Howitzer Brigade of the Royal Field Artillery and! the 2nd Balloon Company of the .Royal Engineers. The latter will send up some captive balloons, and the former will fire shrapnel shell at them from new howitzers- mounted on sunken platforms. The experiments will be carried out in the artillery danger-zone, which will be carefully guarded by mounted sentries. French Cups for Sphericals. FIVE new cups are offered for competition in 19091 by the Aero Club de France :— 1. Coupe Pilatre de Rozier. Value 400 frs. 600 cm category. Distance 200 kilorns. 2. Coupe d'Arlande. Value 500 frs. 1,200 am. category. Distance 300 kiloms. 3. Coupe Charles. Value 600 frs. 1,200 cm. category. Distance 300 kiloms. ' 4. Coupe Robert. Value 1,000 frs. 1,600 cm. and over. Distance 400 kiloms. 5. Coupe des Societes Affiliees a l'A.C.F. Open rx> members of affiliated clubs. Winner, the pilot of the balloon covering the longest distance in 1909, com- mencing April 1 st. FIRST WRIGHT FLYER FOR FRENCH NATION. Now that the new aeroplanes have arrived at Pau, the machine on which Wilbur Wright has made all his wonderful flights has been packed up and sent to M. Lazarre Weiller at Paris. Under the contract with M. Weiller and the Cie. Generate de Navigation Aerienne, the machine became the absolute property of the former as soon as the new machines were delivered. It is to be pre- sented by M. Weiller to the Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers, where it will find a resting place besides Aders' " Avion'" and Cugnot's anticipation of the motor car of to-day. 238
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