AERONAUTICS.
t> AVIATOR DELIVERS NEWSPAPERS. iiy Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright. New York, January 8. M. Didier Masson, tho Freneh aviator, while making an inter-town flight, delivering newspapers en route, lost his way 'in the mountains near Pomona, California. Ho landed, repaired the aeroplane, an dresumed his journey, arriving at San Bernardino, about 50 miles distant, fivo hours and forty minutes after leaving Los Angeles. While giving an exhibition at San Bernardino,- his aeroplane fell and was' wrecked. M. Masson was not hurt. RUDDER SNAPS IN" MID-AIR. London, January 8. While Captain Burke, of the Army Air Corps,, was manoeuvring a Farman biplane at Aldershot tho rudder of 'tho machine snapped. The captain fell from a. height of 50ft., but escaped with bruises. 1 ,The bi-plane was wrecked. 1 FAST. FLIGHT AT PERTH. Perth, January 9. Mr. Hammond, in his recent'flight here, rose to a height, of 3000 ft. He covered the twelve miles of the return journey at tho rate of 70 miles an hour.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1021, 10 January 1911, Page 5
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