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The wrecked "Erbslbh" airship after its terrible fall last week. «aisance which lasted several hours. She started from Metz, and •carrying a crew of ten officers and men, besides several staff officers, she cruised above Thionville in order to take observations of the •military operations in progress there. A Gross and a Parseval are also taking part in the manoeuvres. Disaster to Erbsloh Dirigible. ALTHOUGH it will probably never be known exactly what caused the disaster to the Erbsloh dirigible on Wednesday of last week, there is no doubt that the gas envelope burst, and the experts incline to the belief that it was due to the fabric ot the envelope, which was also much worn, being overstrained by the expansion of the gas when the airship ascended to a great height. When the craft rose from Leichlengen, the only unfavourable condition was that a thick mist hovered over the ground. After cruising for some time at a height of 200 metres the vessel rose to 750 metres and •then descended to 280 metres, when the accident occurred. The £ve occupants of the car, Herr Erbsloh, the designer, a friend named Poelle, two engineers, Kranz and Hollp, and the mechanician, & ® MORE PILOT-AVIATORS. IN our issue of May 28th, p. 408, we published a list of those who •up to that time had been granted the pilote-aviateur certificate of the Aero Club of France. Unfortunately, by an error, the names •of five official observers were placed at the end, so that the number was 81 and not 86 as shown. Since then a further 42 certificates hscve been issued, and the recipients are enumerated in the following list, which also indicates the machines on which they -qualified :— 82. Lancelot Gibbs (H. Farman) 83. Louis Wagner (Hanriot) 84. Andre Taurin (Bleriot) •85. Maurice Colliex (Voisin) 86. ReneLabouchere( Antoinette) 87. Jean Bielovucic (Voisin) 88. Henri Pequet (Voisin) 89. Capt. Eteve (Wright) 90. Capt.Marconnet(H.Farman) -91. Ernest Paul (Voisin) 92. Louis Gibert (Bleriot) •93. Andre Frey (Sommer) 94. Florentin Champel (Voisin) 95. Marcel Hanriot (Hanriot) 96. Jean Dufour (Voisin) 97. Com. Clolus (Antoinette) 98. W. Lebedeff (H. Farman) 99. Marcel Paillette (Sommer) 100. Ed. Audemars (Demoiselle) 101. G. Blondeau (H. Farman) 102. Armand Gobe (Antoinette) 103. Edouard Dufour (Bleriot) 104. Albert Niel (Voisin) €05. Edouard Nieuport(Nieuport) 106. Capt. Madiot (H. Farman) 407. Charles de Baeder (Voisin) 108. Vallon (Sommer) 109. Maurice Clement (Clement) no. Leon Bathiat (Breguet) in. Alexandre Laffbnt (Sommer) 112. Robert Savary (Savary) 113. Paul Hesne (Breguet) 114. Maurice Nogues (Savary) 115. James Scwade (H. Farman) 116. Rene Thomas (Antoinette) 117. Marcel Granet (Bleriot) 118. Emile Duval (Saulnier) 119. Jean Daillens (Sommer) 120. Andre Bouvier (Sommer) 121. Guillaume Busson (Bleriot) 122. Andre Noel (Bleriot) 123. Georges Mahieu(H.Farman) 124. Ruchonnet (Antoinette) 125. Maurice Tabuteau (M. Far- man) 126. Adrien Verliac (Antoinette) 127. Clement Van Maasdyck (Antoinette) 128. Lieut. Maillois (Wright) 129. Lieut. Chevreau (Wright) 130. Rene Vidart (Hanriot) 131. Paul de Lesseps (Sommer) Spiecks, were instantly killed. Herr ErbslSh was an experienced aeronaut, and in 1907 won the Gordon-Bennett balloon race in America. He had formed the Rhenish-Westphalian Motor Airship Company to build the airship, with which he had been experimenting since last autumn. The airship was of the non-rigid type, 176 ft. long and 33 ft. in diameter, and was fitted with a Benz motor of 125-h.p. Italian Dirigible Out Again. ON the 14th inst, the Italian military dirigible left Bracciano, and cruised for some time above Rome. The Zorn Dirigible. ACCORDING to the Magdeburger Zeitung, the chief characteristics of the new Zorn airship, in which the German War Office is evincing great interest, are that the framework is of wood, and made in three sections, each a complete unit with its balloon, car, motors, &c, so that in case of necessity or expediency the dirigible can be divided into three separate airships. A WIND GAUGE AND AN ALTIMETER. Two instruments for aviators, made by J. J. Hicks and Co., are illustrated by the accompanying photographs, one of which shows a small wind gauge and the other a compensated aneroid barometer. The wind gauge or anemometer is divided on six dials to show from one 100th to 10,000 miles. The wind blowing upon the cups rotates the vertical spindle, and the velocity is calculated from the measured amount of wind that is passed in a given time. The instrument is provided with a floating card compass in the base and a wind-vane so that the direction of the wind is auto matically indicated. The alti meter differs from the ordinary pocket aneroid in having a self- registering mechanism so that it can be used in order to ascertain the height to which an unmanned kite or balloon rises. By pressing a button the pointer is auto matically set to read the mean atmospheric pressure, and this is reckoned as zero altitude by turning the movable scale accordingly. The instrument is then attached to the balloon or kite, and the pointer is automatically held stationary at the maximum altitude attained, but it can, of course, be set again to zero by pressing the button. 585
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