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JULY 9, 1910. •machine took De Lesseps as a passenger, and carried him to a height of 1,000 ft. Mr. McCurdy, while flying on his biplane, Baddeck II, fell from a height of 50 ft. and was slightly injured. -A Farman Biplane at New York. USING the old Farman biplane which Paulhan -sold in America, Mr. Clifford Harmon, on the 29th ult, flew for 1 hr. 5 mins. on the Garden City flying ground near New York. In the morning he took his wife for a short trip. OB Sunday he was up again, and flew for 2h. 3m. 303., which is claimed to be a new duration record for America. Bomb Throwing by Curtiss. EXPERIMENTS in dropping dummy bombs on to imaginary warships were carried out by Mr. Glenn Curtiss on the 1st inst. before Rear-Admiral Kimball, U.S. Navy, and other Naval and Military officers. The shape of a battleship was marked out by means of flags on Lake Kimka, and out of twenty missiles dropped by Curtiss •from his aeroplane eighteen of them are said to have effectually hit the mark. Edison on the Flying Machine." IN an article in the current " Munsey Magazine," Mr. Thomas Alva Edison once more expounds his views as to what the flying machine should be. He thinks progress has been too rapid, and the present machines are only useful for sport. Flight is 75 per cent, a matter of machine and 25 per cent. -a. matter of man. The man ought not to figure so much. Of course, present machines are built on wrong principles. Within ten years, says Mr. Edison, "the machine will lift itself and go off to its destination in all kinds of weather at the rate of a hundred miles an hour. It does not take long to perfect an invention after it is once started." £4,000 for a Race between Curtiss and Wright. ANXIOUS to see how the Wright biplane will fare in actual L/OGHT] WRIGHT FLYER IN AMERICA..—Our photograph above, taken at the Wright school at Montgomery, Ala., shows the form of tail which the Wright Brothers are fitting to their own machines. It will be noticed this consists of a horizontal plane and one vertical rudder only. competition against the Curtiss machine, the Aero Club of Washington has offered a sum of .£4,000 to the Wright Brothers for a flight from New York to Washington if they will enter one of their machines against a Curtiss. Wright School Closed. AT the end of May the Wright Brothers closed their school at Montgomery, Ala., the training of the six pupils having been com pleted. The names of them are : Duval La Chapelle, of Paris ; Walter Brookins, Dayton, O. ; Ralph Johnstone and Frank Coffyn, of New York ; Arch. Hoxsey, of Pasadena, Cal. ; and A. L. Welch, of Washington. The accompanying photograph shows some of these pupils at work. ^ Zeppelin Polar Expedition. WITH the object of making their preparations for the proposed Polar expedition in a Zeppelin airship, Prince Henry of Prussia, accompanied by Count Zeppelin and their scientific staff, left Kiel on Saturday last on board the N.D.L. steamer "Mainz" for Spitzbergen. The vessel is being accompanied by the steam yacht " Carmen," which is placed at Prince Henry's disposal as Inspector-General of the Navy, the ice-steamer " Phcenix," and the tug " Sirius." The ice-steamer will be used for searching among the drift ice for facilities for landing the airship. It is expected that the '' Mainz" will return to Germany at the beginning of September, when, if the scheme is feasible, preparations will at once be commenced for getting the airship expedition ready. "Gross III" has an Excursion. JUST before midnight on Monday the Gross military dirigible " M III" left Tegel on a voyage to Gotha, in order to take part in the opening of the airship harbour to-day, Saturday, which has been erected there by private enterprise. Incidentally, it was intended to carry out some experiments with wireless telegraphy. At a quarter past five the following morning, however, a violent storm caused Major Gross to bring the airship down at Zeithan, near Riesa, in Saxony. It was intended to resume the journey later, but during the afternoon the airship was dismantled and sent back to Berlin by train. "Gross IV" nearly Finished. EARLY next month the latest German semi-rigid military airship of the Gross type, " M. IV.," will commence her trials. The vessel is a good deal longer than her prototypes, arid will be characterised by two cars. The envelope is 94 metres in length, 13 metres in diameter, and of 7,500 cubic metres capacity. Two 100-h.p. motors are fitted, each driving two screws. Russian Airship Fleet. RUSSIA is determined not to be left behind in matters aero nautical, and it is anticipated that before long a fleet of seven dirigibles will be in commission. Four will be home-built, two hail from France (a Lebaudy and the original Clement-Bayard), while one is a German production. "Liberie" Practising for the Manoeuvres. IN view of the fact that the " Liberte " is to be utilised during the forthcoming Army manoeuvres in France, the airship has been out several times lately in order to get the crew thoroughly used to the working of her. Recently a voyage of an hour and a quarter was made from Chalais-Meudon, above St. Cloud and Auteuil, while on the previous day the airship was cruising for forty minutes in the vicinity of its headquarters. "Zodiac III" Back at St. Cyr. SINCE having been re-inflated at St. Cyr the dirigible " Zodiac III " has made several excursions lately with Count de la Vaulx in charge. Recently the airship was out for three hours, and in the course of a round trip passed over Fontenay, Villepreux, Secheroll, Manle, Mantes, and M'oisson, where the vessel circled above the Lebaudy works, Jumeaux, Guigen, Le Clays Satory, and so back to St. Cyr. Point-to-Point Balloon Race. A THUNDERSTORM on Saturday last made the preparations for the point-to-point race from Hurlingham none too pleasant, but during a break in the weather six balloons were sent away. Their objective was Langford, in Essex. First to start was Mr. B. H. Barrington Kennett in the " Comet," followed by Capt. Maitland (" Witch of the Air"), Mr. John Dunville ("St. Louis"), Hon. Mrs Assheton- Harbord (" Nirvana "), Mr. Philip Gardner ("Kismet "), and Major Baden-Powell (" Aero Club IV "). Although it is not yet officially announced, it is believed that the cup offered by Mr. Mortimer Singer has been won by Mr. John Dunville, who brought his balloon down at Cold Norton, near Maldon, in Essex. S3i
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