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1911 - 0942.PDF
[fiJ9*l OCTOBER 28, 1911. |MWI • PLIGHT, The latest Coanda aeroplane, as seen at the French military aeroplane competition at Rheiras. The main plane is of 16 metres span, and the supporting surface is about 33 sq. metres. The fin-shaped lower planes fitted at an inverted dihedral angle, and the diagonal arrangement of the tail planes and rudders, is most unusual, while the machine is also unique in having two 70-h.p. Gnome engines, one being placed on each side of the fore part of the fuselage, and driving the four-bladed propeller by gearing. fave up after rising 340 metres in 12 mins. During the morning .ieut. Tretarre arrived on his Deperdussin machine after a non stop run from Toul. Among the ur.official flights were those made by Bregi on a Breguet, Mahieu on a Voisin, Dubreuil on the Hanriot, Colhex on the big Voisin-Canard, Prevost on a Deperdussin, Ladougne on the Goupy, Goffin on the Astra triplane, and Labouret on an Astra-Wright. Saturday was a very bad day, and no official tests were completed, although three attempts were made. Renaux started for his second height test, and reached 498 metres in 15 mins., but why he did not finish the remaining 2 metres is not quite clear. Moineau also tried for the height test, but after going 200 metres found the wind too strong, while Barra © ® also came to the same decision. Early in the morning Hermann arrived at Mourmelon on a 70-h.p. Pivot, and reported a very fast trip with the wind behind him. In view of the bad weather very few of the pdots were on the ground, but short trips were made by Bouvier and Didier. Sunday was completely blank, as the wind and rain rendered it practically impossible to even open the doors of the hangars. The same conditions continued until the afternoon of Monday, when in spite of the wind, Gugenheim on the repaired Henry Farman machine, recommenced his landing tests by flying over to the stubble field at Montcornet. Barra also tried for height, but found it impossible to continue, and that ended the flying for the day. ® ® ABRSMSP NEWS. " Schwaben " Goes to Berlin Again. ON the 16th inst. the Zeppelin liner, " Schwaben," with nine passengers on board, made an excursion of 2 hrs. 35 mins. along the Valley of the Rhine from Dusseldorf, and on Thursday of last week it returned to Berlin. Dusseldorf was left at ten minutes to five, at 8.40 Bremen being passed, Hamburg at 11.30, the 250 kiloms. to that point having been covered in 6 hrs. 40 mins. Continuing on its way the dirigible arrived at Johannisthal at ten minutes to four, the full distance of 450 kiloms. having taken 11 hours. Twenty persons were on board, including five passengers. On the 20th inst. the vessel was taken over Berlin for a short trip. Trials with the "Schutte Lanz." ON the 18th inst., the new airship "Schutte Lanz" was brought out at Mannheim, and with Captain Mueller in command, cruised for an hour and ten minutes over the Rhine until reaching Spire. As the rudder apparently was not working properly the airship was then brought down, and after repairs had been executed, which necessitated the airship remaining in the open all night at Spire, the return journey to Mannheim was made in an hour in the early hours of the following morning. "Paiseval VI" Over Berlin. WHTLK the " Schwaben " was making a trial trip in the neigh bourhood of Berlin, on the 20th inst., " Parseval VI," with a dozen passengers on board, and Major Parseval in command, left Bitters- feld, and landed at Johannisthal after being in the air for if hours. The New Military Zeppelin. THE new German military Zeppelin " LZ No. 9" left Oos at a quarter past seven in the evening of ihe 18th inst. on its 20-hour trial trip imposed by the Minister of War. With Count Zeppelin in command it passed over Mayence and Cobkntz, and at nine o'clock the next morning was over Landau. The vessel continued to cruise about the Rhine Valley until three o'clock in the afternoon, when it landed at Oos, after having covered about 800 kiloms. From Toul to Nancy. ON the 19th inst. the dirigible Adjudant Vincenot left its hangar at Toul and cruised over 10 Nancy and subsequently returned without incident to its headquarters at Toul. In 1869 Mr. H. Lee. the grandfather of Mr. C. Lee, Chair man of the Manchester Aero Club, purchased at San Francisco a number of stereoscopic slides, amongst them being the one reproduced above, which the other day just escaped being destroyed -with a lot of other out-of-date photographs. It is an interesting example of "dirigible" work of forty years ago, the propellers and steering tail being suggestive of the most up - to - date methods of to-day. The legend under the original photo, published by Messrs, Thomas House-worth and Co., of 317-319, Mont gomery Street, San Francisco, is "The Aerial Steam Navigation Co/s Steamer Avitor." Possibly some of our readers may be able to give a hint. 944
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