GREAT AIR FLIGHT.
CONTEST FOR, MICHELIN CUP. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Paris, September 14. M. Georges Fourny, tlio aviator who is competing for tho Michelin Cup, and who has, sinco August last, flown 440 miles daily, flow 8032 miles in oighteen days. Ho hopes to complete, 20,000 milos. Ho flies low, in order to amuso himself watching the poasants, and also races motor-cars. , "INCIDENTAL" COST." "Timos"—Sydney "Sun" Special Cables. (Rec. September 15, 6.55 p.m.) Berlin, September 15. Tho recent accident to tho Zeppelin LI airsliip, which was wrecked with a loss of 13 lives off Cuxliavon, has not broken Germany's faith ii) tho Zeppelins. Such mishaps aro regarded by the German Aviation Department as "necessary infantile maladies" in tho growth of the new science. Tho experionco gained by the disasters places Germany ahead of rival nations.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1856, 16 September 1913, Page 7
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135GREAT AIR FLIGHT. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1856, 16 September 1913, Page 7
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