ÆRIAL NAVIGATION.
A FRENCHMAN'S VERSATILITY.
By Cable—Press Association —Copyright, New York, January 8.
Didier Masson, a French aviator, while making an inter-town flight and delivering newspapers, lost his way in the mountains at Pomana, California, He landed, repaired his aeroplai*, resumed his journey, and arrived at San Bernardino five hours and forty minutes after leaving Los Angeles. While giving an exhibition at San Bernardino his aeroplane fell and was wrecks;!, but Masson was unhurt.
THE WESTRALIAN FLIGHT.
Perth, January 9.
Hammond rose three thousand feet, and covered twelve miles on his return journey at the rate of seventy miles an hour.
A LUCKY ESCAPE.
London, January 8,
Captain Burke, of the Army Air Corps, was fieroplaning at Aldershot when the rudder snapped, and he fell fifty feo>t, but escaped with bruises. Ilis Farman biplane was wrecked.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 229, 10 January 1911, Page 5
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136ÆRIAL NAVIGATION. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 229, 10 January 1911, Page 5
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