AVIATION.
»_. ' -j DISASTROUS JOY RIDE. A BURNING BIPLANE. [By Electric Telegraph-—CopyrightJ [United Press Association.] New York, June 13. Andrew Drew, a pupil of Orville Wright's, fell two hundred feet in a burning biplane and was killed in the wreckage. Drew failed to test the machine before the flight, and laughingly asked his partner to come for a little "joy ride." The latter refused because he was going out to dinner. Drew Mas president of the Aviators' Asociation of America, formed for the purpose of promoting safe methods of flight. A SENSATIONAL FLIGHT. London, Jun 12. The Astra airship, on her maiden trip at Farnsborough, when at an elevation of 11,000 feet, began to drop alarmingly, owing to a flaw in the mechanism regulating the gas pres- -A sure. When nearing the ground the ™ crew threw out the ballast and checked the fall. A hundred bluejackets. seized the land ropes and prevented , a collision with the aeroplane shed. The aeronauts were safely landed.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 34, 14 June 1913, Page 4
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162AVIATION. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 34, 14 June 1913, Page 4
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