AERIAL FLIGHTS.
EXPERIMENTS AT ALDERSHOT.
SUCCESSFUL EXCURSION,
By United PreasAssocifUion—Electric Telegraph Copyright. Received September 9, 8.30 a rn. LONDON, September 8. Mr S. F. Cody, who has for some time past been testing hu aeroplane for the military authorities, made a cross-country flight, lasting 63 minutes, at Aldershot.
A speed of 40 miles an hour was attained.
The aeroplane circled and manoeuvred with the greatest ease at a height of 25C feet.
TWO AVIATORS INJURED
Received September 9, 8.30 a m ROME, September 8,
Two aviators who were experimenting at Milan were seriously injured, and their aeroplane was wrecked.
FATAL FALL FROM A PARACHUTE.
Received September 9, 8.3 a.m. NEW YORK, September 8 A balloonist who made an ascent at New York fell from a height of a thousand feet, and was killed, owing to his parachute failing to work. The accident was witnesssed by sixty thousand spectators.
BALLOON FALLS ON A RAIL WAY LINE.
Received September 9, 8.4 a.m. PARIS, September 8. Two Paris aeronauts in a balloon fell on the railway line at Romaneche, in the South of France, as a train was approaching. The engine driver stopped the train in time to save the men's lives.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9591, 10 September 1909, Page 5
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