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1912
1912 - 0775.PDF
AUGUST 24, 1912. ipum Copyright- , 70 ho Vlale engine, piloted by Macdonald In the Army Aeroplane Thc Vickers mon3pl*ne. fitted with ^^on lallsbury Plain- — A-* tG\ 62\ ® ® Trials -with the "Hansa." THE Zeppelin dirigible " Hansa," which has been making some good trips from Hamburg, met with a mishap on the 16th inst., preparing to start for Ruegen, one of the ballonettes bursting. No great damage was done, however, and on Sunday last the airship went for a long cruise along the Elbe to Cuxhaven and over the North Sea, altogether covering about 200 kiloms. in 2i hours. 775 ® ® Firing Tests at Aircraft. SEVERAL circumstances combined to render abortive the tests in firing at the Aerial Craft on Salisbury Plain last week. When the tests were about to begin, the hawser anchoring the captive balloon to the motor lorry snapped, and the balloon disappeared in a cloud. A second balloon was brought out and inflated, but the envelope split, and the trials were abandoned.
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