FOOLHARDY AVIATOR.
Fifty thousend people stood spellbound as they watched one of the most reckless aeroplane lights that has yet been made. Lihcoln, Beachey, the Californian aviator, was the hero of this foolhardy feat. He rose in his aeroplane to a height ot 2000 ft over Niagara Falls, and then descended at a terrific rate until he was flying 50ft over the edge of the precipice. Having twice circled the falls he headed his aeroplane towards the gorge, and to the amazement of the onlookes sank between the rocky walls, at the foot of which boiled the rapids that proved even more than Captain Webb could conquer. Down, down he went, drenched by the spray from the falls, until he was only a few feet above the rapids, which he skimmed like a huge white duck. Through the centre arch of the suspension bridge he went at 50 miles an hour, and followed the course of the rapid for a mile and a half. Then he rose, missing the edge of the gorge by only a few feet, and landed safely on Canadian territory.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 1033, 22 August 1911, Page 4
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184FOOLHARDY AVIATOR. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 1033, 22 August 1911, Page 4
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