AVIATION.
AIRMAN'S REMARKABLE ES-
CAPE,
By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association.] London, June 24.
Fairburn, testing a 350-horse-power aluminium aeroplane, devised for a trans-Atlantic flight, having the body of the machine enclosed, and provi.
ed with a conning tower with 'glass sides, flew from Brooklands to Shoeburyness, a thousand feet above the sea, when the aeroplane dipped and fell. A friend saw the accident and sailed to the spot and ; attempted to iift the conning tower. The aeroplane sank before he got Fairburn out.
(Received 8.45 a.m.)
Fairburn reached the surface in an air-jacket, and floated until he became conscious, when he swam ashore, a distance of two miles.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 42, 25 June 1913, Page 5
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109AVIATION. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 42, 25 June 1913, Page 5
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