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QpySHT MARCH 7, 1914. FOREIGN :AFT More Passenger Records by Sikorsky. IT is announced from St. Petersburg that on the 26th ult., Sikorsky, on his latest " Grand " biplane, carried sixteen persons, the weight lifted being 1,200 kilogs., for a period of iS mins. He had Photo by Mr. W. Oswald Watt. M. Jacques Schneider attending to bis aerial-driven glisseur on the Nile before taking Lord Kitchener for a trip. This de Lambert-Tissandier craft is driven by a 120 h.p. Salmson motor, and attains a speed of 50 m.p.h. previously flown with eight and with fourteen passen gers. The next day, with eight passengers, he flew from St. Petersburg, by Gatchina, to Tsarkoie-Selo and back, the flight taking 2 hrs. 6 mins. New Passenger Height Records. ON the Schmitt biplane at Chartres on the 25th ult., Garaix succeeded in regaining for France the world's height record for pilot and four passengers by going up to 3,150 metres (10,335 ft-)- The previous record made by the German Thelen was 2,850 metres. On Monday Garaix also secured the record for pilot and three passengers by climbing to a height of 3,300 metres (10,900 ft.) during a flight of an hour and a quarter. The previous record was 2,830 metres, to the credit of Sablatnig. Double Fatality at Amberleu. WHILE flying a machine, which they had built themselves, at theAmberieu aerodrome on Sunday, two brothers, known as Pierre and Gabriel Salvez, but whose real name is said to have been Wroblewski, fell from a height of thirty metres into a quarry. One of the brothers was killed on the spot, and the other died on the way to the hospital. More Farmans for Spanish Army. CONSEQUENT upon the good work effected by the farman machines, most of them having been in use for about two years, attached to the Spanish forces in Morocco, the Spanish Government have ordered a number of the latest model M. Farmaus, and last week Fouroy was at the Four Winds aerodrome, Madrid, potting the first batch of the new machines through their official tests. An Honour for Hirth. . INCLUDED in the list of honours issued in connection with the birthday of the King of Wurtemburg appeared the name of Helmuth Hirth, the well-known German pilot, who has been promoted a Knight of the Order of Frederic. Chevilliard at Rome. ON Saturday last, Chevilliard gave an exhibition of looping the loop, &c, at the Centocelle aerodrome, Rome, on his Farman before the King and Queen of Italy. Pegoud Teaches an Italian to Loop. AFTER being instructed by Pegoud, the Italian pilot, Dal Mistro, succeeded in looping the loop four times on Pegoud's Bleriot at Milan on the 24th inst., and then purchased the machine. Subsequently it was discovered that the machine had been maliciously tampered with, and enquiries are now pending as to who is responsible for the act of sabotage. German Aerial Visitors to Russia ir Prison. IT is announced from Berlin that the German aviator Mischewsky, who landed at Warsaw after a non-stop flight of 10 hrs. 7 mins., as well as the German balloonist Berliner, who landed at Perm after beating the world's record for distance, are still being detained by the Russian authorities on charges of espionage. A Russian Lorper, . THE well-known Russian pilot, EffimofF, is one of the latest to join the ranks of the loopers. He succeeded in accomplishing the feat for the first time at Buc on Monday, and intends to make a tour of Russia, giving exhibitions at the principal places. Fatal End to Turkish Flight. CONTINUING their journey towards Jerusalem, the Turkish Military pilot Capt. Fethi and his passenger Lieut. Sadik, left Damascus on Friday morning of last week and the next news of them was that the machine and the bodies of the two officeis had been found partly burnt at Samar near the lake of Tiberias and about 100 miles from Damascus. It is conjectured by Lieut. Nouri, who is engaged on a similar flight that the machine was caught in a remous and dived to the ground. The two officers were buried in the courtyard of the mosque of Salaheddin Eyoubi at Damascus. Fatal Accident to Newbery. AVIATION in Argentina can ill afford to lose any of its disciples, and the fatal accident to George Newbery, the President of the Argentine Aero Ciub, will leave a gap which it will be hard to fill. For some time he has contemplated flying across the Andes and it appears that while making an attempt to carry out the feat on Sunday the monoplane fell, resulting in fatal injuries to the pilot, while the passenger, Lieut. Rastra, was seriously injured. K» T o • . , • Photo tyMr- *?• Oswald Watt. W. Jacques Schneider's aerial-driven glisseur on the Nile.-At the wheel is M. Jacques Schneider himself, and on his left Is Lord Kitchener, bound for a trip In this unique craft.
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