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IfijGHf) spectators assembled when he made several trips at a height ot zoo metres, and one with a passenger at 120 metres. Later, Osmont flew across the Danube. Mishap to M. Popoff. THE Russian aviator, Popoff, who has hitherto proved a most capable and fearless exponent of the Wright machine, met with a very bad accident at Gatshina, near St. Petersburg, last Saturday. Owing to collision with a hillock, the aeroplane was capsized, and M. Popoff was thrown out of his seat, sustaining a fracture of the hip and severe injuries to his head. An American Trick Flyer. WITH enthusiasm roused to its highest pitch by Glenn Curtiss' trip down the River Hudson, the people of New York flocked in their thousands to Mineola last week to see the exhibition flights of Curtiss and his pupils. On Saturday last about I5J°OO people were present, and they were duly thrilled to the full by Hamilton, the most daring manipulator of the Curtiss machine. In his daring methods he much resembles the late Lefebvre, and several times when he suddenly swooped down from a height it JUNE iij 1910. seemed impossible that he would escape disaster, but in the next instant he had turned and was once more rising. Similarly, too, he circles round and round, gradually making the radius smaller and smaller, until the machine is at an alarming angle, but he never fails to right it, and with ease. All these tricks are greatly to the taste of his American audience, who prefer them to the lengthy flights of the ordinary kind. More Big Prizes in America. STIMULATED by the splendid flight of Glenn Curtiss rom Albany to New York, several big prizes have recently been announced, although many of them do not appear to be quite definite. Among others it is reported that the New York World and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch jiave offered ,£6,000 for a flight between those cities, while the New York Times and the Chicago Evening Post have offered £5,000 for a trip between New York and Chicago. A race is also proposed between New York and Washington on Independence Day for a prize of £4,000, while a movement is on foot to organise a triangular event from Indianapolis to St. Louis and Chicago and back to Indianapolis, the prize to be ,£8,000. America has at last woken up to the possibilities of flight. tews. Clement-Bayard Airship Out Again. THE damage sustained during the trials some days ago having been repaired, the Clement-Bayard airship was taken from its shed at Lamotte-Breuil for a trial on Wednesday of last week. Since its previous appearance the arrangement of steering planes at the after- end of the vessel has been made a fixture and a separate rudder fitted. With the object of testing this modification the airship, carrying a crew of six, including M. Clement himself, manoeuvred over its shed for an hour at a height of 800 ft. During the trials the airship kept within a radius of about two-thirds of a mile, and was safely docked at the conclusion. On the following morning the airship was again taken out and made a successful flight to Compiegne and back, the distance of about 24 miles being covered in half an hour. On the return to its shed, the landing was rendered somewhat difficult on account of the wind, and once again the framework of the car suffered damage. This however is said not to have been so serious as on the three previous occasions. Names for French Dirigibles. IN view of the proposal to increase the fleet of French military dirigibles, the Minister of War has been getting out a list of suitable names for them. It is proposed to thus commemorate some of the most prominent men who have studied the subject of aeronautics, such as Montgolfier, Pilatre-de-Rozier, Charles Blanchard, Guyton- de-Morvan, while the martyrs, Delagrange, Capt. Ferber, Le Blon and Capt. Ponand will not be 'forgotten. The three dirigibles which are being presented to the Government as a result of the " Republique "disaster will bear the names of the officers who lost their lives then : Capt. Marchal, Adjutant Vincenot and Adjutant Rean. Austrian Lebaudy on Trial. ON Saturday last the new dirigible which has just been built for the Austrian Government, from the designs of M. Julliot, was given its first trial trip, which lasted for half an hour. The trial was made at Fischamend, in Lower Austria, and Lieut. Tepres was in command, assisted by a P'rench crew of five. The capacity of the envelope is 4,800 cubic metres, about twice that of the Parseval airship which the Austrian military authorities already possess. It is fitted with an Austrian motor of 100-h.p. Chinese Prince in "Parseval IL" ON Friday morning of last week Prince Tsai Tao paid a visit to the German military airship headquarters, and in company with General Lowenfeld was taken for a trip of about 20 mins. in the dirigible " Parseval II." Afterwards the Prince was entertained to luncheon by the officers, and the arrangements of the airship were fully explained to the members of the suite. A MINIATURE DIRIGIBLE.—General view of the latest airship turned out by the Societe Zodiac to an American order The envelope is of 750 cubic metres capacity, and it is claimed for this airship that it is the smallest in the world. 452
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