SCOTLAND'S BIPLANE.
another umwawi'L flight. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Oliristclruivh, Last Night. Mr. Scotland ina.de a (light in his new Cauldron bipane at Bumside to-day, but in dcaicendiiij; lie bumped the earth* seriously damaging the maonine. The aviator escaped -with a Mow over tho eye A fortnight's work will 'be to put the aeroplane in order again, many portions ol tho frame requiring to be re-built. Interviewed after tho accident, Scotland said that lie felt that tho machine was not, answering too well as soon as ho got into the air, and lie found it diffioult to manage her. When ho mi alighting the elevating planes would not do their work properly, and the' (machine could not recover from the Bleop angle of its descent. The first touching of 'tho earth successfully n;ana<ged, but the second tump saw the 'machine tipj forward, «nd before ho could ao anything the crash was over.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 107, 29 September 1914, Page 8
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151SCOTLAND'S BIPLANE. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 107, 29 September 1914, Page 8
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