18 OCTOBER 1902, Page 3

The conquest of the air proceeds slowly and at a

heavy cost of human life amongst the experimenters. At 7.30 on Mon- day morning M. de Bradsky, a Hungarian Baron, accom- panied by his engineer, M. Morin, started from the aerostatic park at Vauoirard—whence M. Severo made his ill-fated ascent—in a new steerable airship of his own invention. M. de Bradsky's objective was Issy, but he was driven to Montmartre by a south-west wind, and was preparing to descend at Stains when the car became detached from the balloon and was dashed to the ground, killing both the aeronauts. The newspapers talk of State intervention to check these experi- ments. There were no newspapers when men first set about the conquest of the sea.