AVIATOR IN A FOG.
LOSES HIS COURSE WHEN CROSS' V". INCi Till; CHANNEL. By Tfllecrach-Prcsa ActoelaUon-CoDyrleht "Times"—Sydney "Suu" Special Cables. London, December 17. ' Salmet. tho aviator, accompanied by Sirs. .Assheton Harbord, left Folkestone on Sunday morning on n trip across the Channel. ,• A stiff south-wester was blowing, ami they, ran into, fog banks; Losing the sonso'of direction, ho descended nearer tho water, and discovered from a fishing smack that ho was being blown at right angles to tho..proper course. . .. After, correcting the direction, Salmet found he was making little headway, and; had only a tiny amount of petrol left." He decided to descend to tho water linear a passing steamer. Through 'a break in tho fog Iso saw a ship, and tried vainly to reach it. Then a shadow'loomed up in the south, and he headed, for it, and landed at Dieppe, . which, ho thought was Boulogne. .... ■■ . .
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1936, 19 December 1913, Page 7
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147AVIATOR IN A FOG. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1936, 19 December 1913, Page 7
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