AEROPLANING
ITS DANGERS EXAGGERATED STATISTICS FROM FRANCE. (Received Last Night, 9.40 o'clock.) PARIS, March 11. The Aero Club states that the dangers of .aviation have been exaggerated. Only one death has, it states, occurred in every 100,000 kilometres traversed. Twelve thousand passengers were carried in France in 1911, compared with 4800 in the previous year. Thirteen thousand flights were made across country, aggregating 2,600,000 kilometres, compared with half a million in 1910. The aviators wore 30,000 hours aloft, compared with 8300 hours.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10581, 12 March 1912, Page 5
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82AEROPLANING Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10581, 12 March 1912, Page 5
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