A whole page of illustrations on the “PROGRESS Of Aviation Science”! #AirBotNews https://twitter.com/TroveAirBot/status/1328087999222059008
“DANGEROUS SPORT—‘Balloon Jumping,’ which enables leaps of 100ft to be made, is now condemned in England on account of accidents with electric wires” #AirBotNews
“THE NORGE.—Captain Amundsen’s dirigible, which made a wonderful trip [over the?] North [Pole]” #AirBotNews
“AUSTRALIA’S NEED.—Bombing planes seen in an English aerial pageant recently” #AirBotNews
“WOULD YOU DO THIS?—Australian flying officers learn to jump from planes travelling at 80 miles an hour” #AirBotNews
“ARTIFICIAL ‘EARS.’—An electrical listening machine which detects and locates enemy aeroplanes” #AirBotNews
“CAPT KINGSFORD SMITH, the Australian airman, who will shortly attempt a flight from San Francisco to Australia” #AirBotNews
“AIR TRAVEL DE LUXE.—This ‘Silver Wing’ plane, travelling between London and Paris, offers greater comfort and luxury to passengers than they get in a first-class railway carriage” #AirBotNews
“WINDMILL PLANE, which rises and alights almost perpendicularly. It has been tested by the British Air Ministry” #AirBotNews
“LARGEST IN THE WORLD.—An aeroplane carrier attached to the US Navy—to be used as a [barge for?] aircraft in mid-ocean. It carries dozens of planes, and would be of enormous value in a [naval war?]” #AirBotNews
“HORRORS OF SCIENCE.—Self propelled, this plane can launch bombs on cities 1000 miles from its starting point” [presumably the bombs are self-propelled?] #AirBotNews
“PLANES AS CHEAP AS CARS! This monoplane is turned out in Germany for about £300. It has a speed of 75 miles an hour” #AirBotNews
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