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WATER-PLANING CONTESTS. BRITISHER'S SUCCESSFUL. . . FLIGHT. (Received this morning, 12.15 o'clock ) LONDON, August 11. MacEean, a Britisher, loft Whitechurch nnd flew in a watcrplane up the Thames., ever Tower Bridgo, under the remaining bridges, and bouncing on-the water under BlacI? friars and Waterloo bridges, and .finally, alightod at Westminster pier. , Meanwhile Beaumont was attempting to hydroplane abovo the water, •from Paris to London, along the Seine and around the coasts. When ho eft Boulogne lie wa« immediately caught by a gu.st and capsized two hundred yards from tiic shore.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10691, 12 August 1912, Page 5
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