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Restaurant in Coventry Street, was fined £$ for an offence at the said establishment against the lighting regulations on September 22nd. £$ OR 31 days—why 31, we wonder—was the well-merited punishment meted out by the West Ham magistrate on Arthur Thomas Oxford, a Canning Town boilermaker, for spreading a false report about " a big fleet of airships coming over to-night." The laying of him by the heels was a smart piece of work on the part of a " Special." IK view of the large amount of ash used in aeroplane con struction, it has been suggested that " Hearts of Ash " would be an appropriate aero-nautical ditty in the years to come. TM War Office has presented an Albatros aeroplane to Cambridge University. IT may be of interest to note, in connection with the con struction of the latest Zeppelins, that although these are started in Germany, they are finally finished in England. ATLANTIC CITY from above by moonlight is one of the latest thrills provided for air-trippers, for Aviator Beryl H. Kcmlrick. who has already demonstrated the success of such a plan, has made arrangements for carrying out a scries of these flights with liis airship. Miss MARJORIE STINSON, who hitherto has been flying Wright biplanes, made her first flight in a tractor biplane— the 50 h.p. Brock—last month in quite finished style. In fulini- she intends using this machine for exhibition work. - i_ _ WALTER L. BROCK, by the way, is building a Morane- Saulnier-type monoplane, with which he hopes to put up " some " exhibition flying. WHEN invited to come for a flight. Miss Laura Anderson, of Montreal, consented on condition that sin- could carry on knitting socks for soldiers, and so, piloted by S. T. Meyer- hoffer, the industrious young lady knitted away serenely as they flew over the city. At least, so the story goes. ACCORDING to the Revue dts Produits Ckimiques, analysis of the metal parts of the Zeppelin brought down in Paris recently showed that the constituents were as follows: Angle brackets—aluminium 90*27 per cent, sine 7-8 per cent.; channel members—aluminium 88; 68 per cent., zinc 9-1 per cent.; bracings—aluminium 99*07 per cent., sine * 13 percent. A small quantity of other ingredients consisted of copper, tin, manganese, iron, nickel and silicon. IN an " expert's " aviation article in a contemporary, it is stated : " We cannot imagine that Lieut. Robinson's exploit caused the Hun any serious mental agitation, for, lacking definite news, he was prepared to accept the loss of the non-rigid aeroplane, wrongly and absurdly described by our authorities as a Zeppelin, as a piece of sheer ill-luck." This even tops the description in the same " weakly " of a J.A.P. engine as one of Japanese make. AMONGST the cards bearing such words as gondola, engine, radiator, &c.. at the exhibition of Zepp. relics, was one in scribed " Silencer," and having in the corner a minute object. Closer view discovered one of these indiarubber comforters for babies. English designers may make drawings and take measurements. Who was the joker ? IT is a pity something better in the way of design could not have been thought out for the badge of the R.F.C. H H Hun •• Fright fulness '• In a New Phase. AT a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Navy League, on Tuesday, the following resolution was unanimously adopted:— " The Executive Committee of the Navy League has heard with profound concern that the German Military Authorities propose to hold a court-martial on British airmen who are alleged to have been found with ' tracer' bullets in their pos session ; if the fact be as stated the Navy League demands that similar treatment shall be promptly meted out to the crews of German Zeppelins now prisoners of war in England Observer. It is a lop-sided looking affair, and causes a brave, body of men to be known as " Onewingers." IN a London suburb is a row of 12 houses, each let to two families, perhaps a hundred humans in all. Opposite is waste ground. A bomb fell 15 yards in front of the middle houses, more or less altering the shape of the whole row! Not only was nobody killed, but none were injured. Just a severe fright or so, that's all. A SHORT while ago one of our staff tried for the tenancy of a villa in Essex, but the landlord would only sell. Standing empty it came to grips with a bolt from the blue, fairly and squarely. Good luck ! TEN YEARS AGO. Excerpts from the " Auto." (" FLIGHT'S " precursor and sister Journal) of October, 1906. " FLIGHT " was founded in 1908. THE GORDON-BENNETT BALLOON RACE. The start of the 17 balloons for the great Aerial Derby, as it has come to be called, which took place on Sunday afternoon last in the Tuileries Gardens, Paris, was in every way a success from a spectacular point of view. The weather was delightful, the numbers of spectators enormous and enthu siastic, and the organisation was so perfect that each com petitor was started off at the right moment with the regularity of clockwork, while military bands enlivened everybody and gave a holiday atmosphere to the proceedings. Some excitement was occasioned by nothing being heard of the Hon. C. S. Rolls till some of the later evening papers came out on Tuesday evening, when it emerged that he had eventually landed near Sandringham after a satisfactory but not particularly exciting voyage. The results were subsequently announced as follows :— (1) " United States," 400 miles ; (2) " Elfe," 370 miles ; (3) " Walhalla," 204 miles ; (4) " Britannia," 287 miles ; (5) " Zephyr," 212 miles ; (6) " Ville de Chateauroux," 206 miles ; (7) " Montana." 200 miles. COUNT ZEPPELIN'S FURTHER SUCCESS. It is with real satisfaction that all who take an interest in the navigable airship will learn that recent experiments at the Lake of Constance with the Zeppelin airship proved most satisfactory. This great vessel is now furnished with Daimler motors supplying 85 h.p., and has proved so much more manageable than on any previous occasion, that future trials are to be conducted not only over Lake Constance, which has hitherto been for safety's sake the scene of the airship's manoeuvres, but also are to be undertaken over land. The airship, which is said to have attained speeds of 45 kiloms. per hour, started from Manzell on the Wurtemburg side of the lake, proceeded in the direction of Constance, and when close to the shore at that point ran down the south-western shore of the lake to Arbon, and then struck nearly due north back to Friedrichshafen, and from there coasted round the short distance—nearly 70 kiloms.—to the starting point. MAJOR GROSS, OPTIMIST. The successful performance of the Zeppelin airship, amongst other results, has been productive of a lecture by Major Gross to the International Aeronautic Federation, held in the Charlottenburg High School. In his observations. Major Gross maintained that " the principle of construction for air ships is now absolutely clear. That there is no further ques tion of inventing an airship, but merely of actually con structing one." Well, of course, it is all a matter of what one means by invention. Even Major Gross admits that steering arrangements are not at present absolutely ideal, though how far they are to be brought into an ideal condition except by the exercise of further invention is not quite plain. H H with whom " tracer' bullets have been found when raiding airships were recently brought down in this country." German Aerial Losses. IN addition to Lieut, Wintgens, Germany has recently lost three pilots who have figured prominently in Head quarters communiques. They are Lieuts. Mutzer, Muller and Schwartzkopf, each of whom had been given the Order of Merit for their exploits. According to the Cologne Gazette, Wintgens was attacked from behind when flying at 12,000 ft., and a bullet struck his petrol tank, which caught fire, and the machine fell to the ground wrapped in flames. < I
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