AN AERONAUT'S ADVENTURE.
ATTEMPT TO CROSS ENGLISH CHANNEL. MACHINE FALLS INTO THE SEA. f Received July 20. 9 am. PARIS, July 19. After waiting for suitable weather at Calais for a week, Mr Latham started to-day to cross the English Channel in his aeroplane. The machine rose to a great height, then the motor slowly stopped and descended, alter going ten miles from the coast. A French torpedo boat destroyer found Mr Latham sitting on the floating aeroplane calmly smoking a cigarette. Mr Latham and his aeroplane were put on board the vessel and taken back to Calais.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9548, 21 July 1909, Page 5
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98AN AERONAUT'S ADVENTURE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9548, 21 July 1909, Page 5
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