FELL LIKE A SHOT.
• » AVIATOR'S DEATH, A COMPLETE SOMERSAULT. By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright London, August 4. Dempster, an eye-witness of the accident by which Mr. Lindsay Campbell, an Australian, while flying in a moimplano at the Brooklands Aerodrome was killed, states that Campbell wns too high to effect u convenient landing in the aerodrome, which was 800 yards distant. In making a circle downwards, he turned <i complete somersault, but, by an extraordinary effort, he righted the machine L'OO feet from the ground and : started to fly to the aerodrome, but in making a turn something wont wrong, and lie fell like a shot. I Later. Campbell ascended in a slight mist and a gusty wind. In turning a comer tho monoplane side-slipped and fell 800 feet. Campbell's chest was crushed, and ho died in a few minutes.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1511, 6 August 1912, Page 5
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138FELL LIKE A SHOT. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1511, 6 August 1912, Page 5
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