TRYING EXPERIENCE.
FLYING ACROSS THE CHANNEL
AVIATOR LOST IN FOG-BANK
Tints'—'Sydney Sun' Special Cable* (Received Dec. 18, 8.5 a.m.) LONDON. Dec. 17.
Salmot, tho aviator, accompanied by Mrs' Assheton Harbord, leftFolkestone on Sunday morning on a
trip across the Channel. A stiff south-wester was blowing, and they ran into fog banks. Losing sense of* direction lie descended nearer tho water and discovered from a
fishing smack that he was being blown at right angles to the proper course. After correcting the direction, Salmot found he was making little headway, and had oinly a small quantity of petrol left. He decided to descend to tho water near a passing! steamer. Through a break in the fog he saw a ship and tried vainly to reach it. Then a shadow loomed tip in the south, and he headed for it and landed at Dieppe, which he thought was Boulogne.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 19 December 1913, Page 5
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147TRYING EXPERIENCE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 19 December 1913, Page 5
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