The papers of Tuesday published a statement from Lord Tullibardine
about the Dunne aeroplane, which is said to have excited admiration in France and also to have won at last the confidence of the War Office. This type of aeroplane was invented by Lieutenant Dunne, and at the request of the War Office secret experiments, beginning as long ago as 1906, were carried out with Lord Tullibardine's co-operation at Blair Atholl. The War Office, however, did not provide the powerful engine which Mr. Dunne needed. The model of the aeroplane, which is V-shaped and has no tail, was pre- served as a patent only at considerable pecuniary loss by a syndicate of which Lord Tullibardine was a principal member. It is now said that the Dunne type is the most stable ever constructed. If this be true, it would seem that much money has been spent on less stable models, while all the time an almost self-balancing model was in existence.
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