Progress of Flight About the Country

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PROGRESS OF FLIGHT ABOUT THE COUNTRY

Acroplane Building and Flying Soc. (8, Manchester St., W.). Arrangements have just been concluded with Mr. W. Ecclestone by which the Society are to have the use of the Kensal Green Athletic Ground for flying purposes. As the ground does not show a hill or slope suitable for gliding, it was necessary for the Society to get over the difficulty, and the matter was taken in hand by the Secretary, who has evolved an inclined wire cable tramway to answer the purpose.

This device is now in the hands of Messrs. Piggott Bros., of Bishopsgate, and the idea has developed to such an extent that it looks like giving quite a novel turn to gliding. The inventor, who is applying for a patent, has great hopes of seeing every landowner in England with a portable hill fixed up on the lawn, where the "rising" generation may enjoy the exhilarating swoop through the air that is characteristic of gliding on a good machine. In the course of a few weeks the Society hopes to demonstrate what can be done on their own hill with their own glider.

Flight, October 8, 1910