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!' "••••••.•• Legagneux in full flight on his Sommer biplane at the Lyons Aviation Meeting in turning, one of the wings of his Antoinette machine caught on a sand mound. This caused it to double up, and brought the machine down with a crash, rendering further flying out of the question. The actual flying week commenced on Sunday last, but the wind and the rain was against the flyers. Nevertheless, Christiaens and Edmond on Farman machines, and Morane on a Bleriot, made several short trips, while Popoff on his Wright flew for 25 minutes. The greatest height was attained by Morane, who rose to 120 metres and then planed down. On Monday the wind practically pre cluded any flying, and the longest flight was one of just under ten minutes by Christiaens, he and Morane being the only flyers who ventured out. In addition to the four aviators mentioned, Wieneziers and his Antoinette, and Madame de la Roche and her Voisin are entered. THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON AERIAL NAVIGATION. BELOW we give the names of the British delegates who will next week attend the conference to be held between the representatives of the European Governments to discuss the making of laws to govern the use of the air for navigation purposes. There is no need to discuss the composition of the conference—that is entirely beside the point—and in any case we do not suppose for a moment that the immediate results of the conference will go much beyond the purely academic. Its chief significance lies in the implication that aviation has so far become an accomplished practicality, that the Governments of the world have awakened to the fact that a set of conditions has arisen which was never contemplated by the draftsmen who have from time to time prepared the code, written and unwritten, which constitutes what is vaguely known as international law. It has been said that the law relating to the air is in a state of chaos. That is an entirely false description, because what does not exist at all cannot be said to be in chaos. As a matter of plain fact, there is no law of the air applied in any civilised country, simply because until now there has never been any necessity to legislate in that direction, and it is this starting with a clean slate Manufacturing Prospects at Bury St. Edmunds. CONSIDERING the rapidity with which the movement connected with the conquest of the air is progressing, it is hardly to be wondered at that many of the large and old-established engineering concerns in this country are considering the advisability of interesting them selves in it in a more or less direct manner. There are, for instance, not a few concerns like Messrs. Robert Boby, Ltd., of Bury St. Edmunds, who have very large establishments that are already suit ably equipped for the work of aeroplane manufacture, and whose factories happen to be situated in the centre of extremely convenient trial-grounds that seem almost to have been made for the purpose. This particular firm, for instance, employs some 300 hands skilled in the working of light woodwork and similar construction, so that the men, in addition to the plant that is installed, could speedily be which gives so much interest to the discussions of the conference which will meet in Paris next Wednesday. If the discussion is at all fruitful it may attain to that most desirable condition of things resulting in uniformity of the law relating to the user of the air in every country instead of each nation, as is the case in all other matters, adopting a code of its own, to the confusion of the nationals of one who may find themselves on or over the territory of another. In any case, the mere fact that the Admiralty, the Army Council, the Board of Trade, and the Home Office are being officially represented in Paris means that British officialdom is having the question of flight law brought prominently before its notice, and that the "waking up " of England in aeronautic and other matters is at last being boldly proclaimed to all whom it may concern. The British delegates comprise: Rear-Admiral Sir Douglas Gamble, K.C.V.O. ; Capt. Murray Sueter, R.N. ; Lieut.-Col. G. M. W. Macdonogh, R.E. ; Capt. A. T. G. Chalmers; Mr. W. Byrne, C.B. ; and Mr. H. B. Butler, of'the Home Office, who will act as secretary to the delegation. ® & made to accommodate themselves to the service of the new industry. Considering that there are 21 acres of land surrounding the factory, and that one of the large buildings, being some hundred feet square, would give the needed accommodation, some readers of FLIGHT might find their requirements met if they were to take the matter up with the firm in question. Catalogues wanted for India. MESSRS. E. AND A. LEVETUS AND CO. of Stone House, 55 and 56, Basinghall Street, E.C., write that, on behalf of their aeroplaning friends in Ii.dia, they would be pleased to receive cata logues of fittings for aeroplanes, such as turnbuckles, bracers, springs for chassis, wheels, &c, also of instruments, such as revolution counters, barometers, inclination indicators, anemometers, wind gauges, &c 372
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