AVIATOR NOT DISCOURAGED. By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright Received "21, 1*2.25 a.m. London, October 20. Wellman attributes his failure to the equilibrator stopping the ship's headway. The equilibrator is a long rope attache! to tanks of gasoline floating in water. Wei I man's hand was injured by catchin? ropes thrown from the Trent rescuers. He has made plans for renewal of the flight in 1011. The balloon vanished when cut adrift, and it is believed it sunk with the weight of the machinery.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 165, 21 October 1910, Page 5
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