In the Air

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3, 2 September 1915, Page 5

In the Air

BRITISH BULL-DOC GRIT; blinded pilot guided by „ DYING COMRADE. United Press Association. (Received 10.35 a.m.) Paris, September 1. A party of Frenchmen were watching the Germans shelling a British monoplane falling into the Geiniiui lines, when suddenly it rose and came down in the French lines. Ibe Frenchmen rushed up and found two seemingly dead bodies under a shapeless mass. As the pilot was picked up he showed signs of life and whispered, “I am blind, bring the Major.] can give i results of the reconnaissances.” The pilot narrated that after accomplishing their mission shells began to burst at a height of 1500 metres, apparently I killing the look-out and /blinding the 'pilot, who later let go the level's but I heard the look-out feebly cry: “Rise (quickly.” The pilot replied: “I am blind.” The look-out. still feebler. Cried: “Rise to the right, we are over ' the German lines." Following the 1 dying man’s directions the pilot reign ined the French lines, but his comrade was dead.

DEATH OF PECOUD. London, September 1. Pegoud. the well-known aviator, has being killed.

(Adolphe Pegoud, known amongst airmen as “the Flying Fox.” was probably the, most renowned of aviators. He first came into prominence by bis feats of “looping the loop,” and dying upside down in a Hleriot monoplane in 19L1. He served in the French campaign in Morocco in 190 1 , and entered the French' Army Flying Service in 1913. Several times during the present war Pegoud has been reported killed or missing, but the daring airman always turned up safely after his encounters with the enemy. Pegoud was 28 years of age.)

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Paris, September 1

Pegoud twdfihf i flying; at a height of of 6000 feet. The Germans have long awaited thelOppoitunity. Pegoud. shortly before his death, said: “The Germans swore to have my blood, but it will, cost them dear.”

Pegoud at the outbreak ol war. acted as aerial guard for General .Infire, and a>constant sdhVee hf terror to the Crown Prince’s army in the Argonne and Alsace. He shot down many aeroplanes, his looping and angle gliding baffling ids opponents. Ho was the hero of innumerable and daring bombing feats.