AEROPLANING.
RISKY, BUT AT TIMES PROFITABLE. (By Telegraph-Press Association-OomidhU 'Paris, September 20. M. Paulhan (the French biplanist who was third in tho distanco cont-est at Rheims, covering 81 2-sth miles in 163 minutes 28 seebnde) won £1000 sterling for' an hour's flight over the 'sea around Ostoud. Finally, tho machine, expended its petrol, and fell into, tho sea. 11. Paulhaii and.his aeroplane woro saved. New York, September 20. Orville Wright, who _has just put up a now two-men flight record, earned £2500 storling in a fortnight. ALTITUDE FLIGHT. (Reel September 22, 0.10 a.m.) Romo, September 21. M. Rougicr, at Brescia, aeroplanbd in tho t presence of King Emmanuel at a height of ' 645 ft.', boating Mr. Hubert Latham's Rhoims 1 record of 510 ft.
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 618, 22 September 1909, Page 7
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124AEROPLANING. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 618, 22 September 1909, Page 7
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