AERONAUTICS.
...... . ■■ CODY AGAIN BEATS HIS OWN RECORDS. FORTY MILES AN HOUR. GOOD COMMAND: 63 MINUTES , FLIGHT. (By Tolcrraph,— Vteei A«soc!tilton.—OoorrlahU London, September' 8. Mr. S. F. Cody, who has for 6omo timt past been testing his aeroplane for tho military authorities, mado a oross-country flight, . lasting sixty-thrco minutes, at Aldorshot. A speed of forty miles an hour was 1 at", tained. Tlte acroplano circled and manoeuvred with tho greatost case at a height of 250 fcot. [This is an English aeroplane record for tiroo aloft, and probably for distance too.]
CASUALTIES.' ', '
AEROPLANISTS INJURED AT MILAN. ' Rome, September 8. Tno aviators who wcro'experimenti])g 4 at Milan wero ooriously iujurcd, and their acre plauo v»«is wrecked. PARACHDTIST FALLS 1000 FEET. Now Vorh, September 8. A balloonist wlio mado an a seen t at Xe\t York fell from a height of a thousand feet and was killed, owing to his parachute fail-' ing to work. Iho accident was witnessed by ■ sixty thousand spectators, BALLOON DROPS ON RAILWAY TRACK. • ' Paris,- September 8. Tno Paris actonants in a balloon fell on ' tho railway lino at Romaneche, in tho South of France, as a train was approaching. The engine-driver stopped the'train'in..time, to, , save tho men's lives. ■ v
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 608, 10 September 1909, Page 5
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201AERONAUTICS. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 608, 10 September 1909, Page 5
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