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NOVEMBER 27, 1919 [filrtei THE FLIGHT TO AUSTRALIA: Start of the Blackburn Kangaroo from Hounslow on November 21 FRENCH actresses are proverbially so light and airy, that considerable lift should be given to the popularity of " di- rigebling " by the adhesion of Mile. Gaby Morlay, the Paris stage-favourite, to the practical side of the art. According to a report from the gay city, Mile. Morlay has for a long time been interested in lighter-than-air flying, and has on many occasions taken lessons by the piloting of dirigible balloons. She has already, so it is stated, passed brilliantly all practical tests which are required for a pilot's certificate, and has now undergone her technical examination, which she has also passed with the greatest success, and thus becomes the first woman pilot of a lighter-than-air machine. FOR fear posterity may have handed down to it a some what misleading historical Zep. item, it is, perhaps, well to record that " The Zeppelin," 15,200 tons, which is now to be handed back again by the Americans to Great Britain, is not a lighter-than-air craft—she is one of the eight German sea-going vessels lent by us since February for the purpose of transporting American troops. FLYING to winter sports in Switzerland appears to be " catching on." Once or twice reference has been made to its progress, and a further instalment from a Berne correspondent of The Times gives the latest moves in this connection. " The development of aviation," he writes, " has put a new aspect on the question of travelling in Switzerland. Thus there will be, on special occasions, an aeroplane pas senger service between Zurich and St. Moritz, and civilian flying promises to be very popular at Lugano and elsewhere. I recently had the opportunity of flying from Zurich over the lower ranges of the mountains that form the western barrier of the Upper Rhine, and I would venture to predict that the advent of civil aviation in Switzerland will bid fair to rival in popularity all the other attractions of the country. " At present, of course, the sport—for sport it most cer tainly is—is entirely undeveloped, for Switzerland is too small a country to have at its disposal a very large number of machines, and there are many difficulties to face. Thus the fact that Maj. Isler managed to land on the Jungfraujoch does not mean that landing at very high altitudes will hence forth prove a simple matter. Quite the contrary, for, as he pointed out to me, you have not only to land on a very confined and dangerous space, but, owing to the thinness of the atmosphere, you cannot shut off your engine and vol- A Breguet tractor biplane about to land 1539
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