AERONAUTICS.
BOMB-DROPPING CONTEST,
By Telesraph-Pjess AsEociation-Cor.Yrieht London, September 16. At Hendon, fifteen thousand persons witnessed a contest in dropping bombs from aeroplanes. Mr. Travers, the winner, dropped a bomb from.a height of 100 feet within a 26 feet mark. Mr. S. Pickles, an Australian, was second, dropping a missile within a 39ft. circle.
Mr. Pickles won. the altitude contesi reaching a height of 2850 feet.
'ACCIDENT AT CHICAGO.
(Rec. September 17, 10.15 p.m.) New York, September 17,
While twenty aviators were circling over Chicago one named Carlstrum fell a hundred feet and was seriously injured.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1548, 18 September 1912, Page 7
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