FLYING BUT DEAD
INCIDENT OF THE AIE. Captain Boeloke, the German airman! who was killed at the end of October,, described an amazing occurrence in the> air in a letter which is published in. the book of his Field Reports just issued in Germany. He describes an. encounter between English: and German air squadrons near B on September 27, "My antagonist," he says,, "tried to jet away, but I stuck to him (apparently firing all the time ats point-blank range). But I couldn't! help admiring His endurance. "I must have settled him long ago, but round and round he kept on flying as well as ever. It was too muoh to stomach. I said to myself, 'The fellow's dead long ago, but the 'plane keeps on the level because he's got rubber bands keeping the steering-gear right. 5 So I flew, olose in, and there I saw the Englishman slightly toppled over to the sidesitting at his wheel stone dead." Th'o number of the machine, says T3oelckoj was 7495. ■
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3013, 26 February 1917, Page 8
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169FLYING BUT DEAD Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3013, 26 February 1917, Page 8
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