AVIATION.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13520, 31 October 1911, Page 5

AVIATION.

COLONEL CODY SCORES. Press Association .—Telegraph.—Copyright. LONDON, October 30. Colonel F. S. Cody, in a monoplane of his own invention, flew 255 miles at Aldershot lor the Miohelin Track Cup and a prize of TSOO. The average height attained was 1200 feet, and he flew at the rate of 51 miles an hour. The last hour was a continuous struggle against gusty winds, and he had difficulty in maintaining his balance. On alighting he was carried shoulder high to the garage. TRANS-CONTINENTAL FLIGHT. Received October 31, 11.40 a.m. NEW YORK, October 30. Continuing his cross-Continental flight, Rodgers has reached Sierra Blanca, having covered 230 miles in 229 minutes. The other aviators, however, are not making much progress. AIRMAN'S PRESENTIMENT OF EVIL Crowd Despoils the Dead. NEW YORK, October 28. News from Macon (Georgia) states that the aviator Ely, who was killed while flying at the State Fair on Thursday, had a premonition that ho was starting on his last flight. . Bi connection with this a pathetic incident is related. Just before leaving the ground ho told the operating mechanics that if anything happened to him to wire to his wife .-without delay. Mrs. Ely was in Norfolk when the accident occurred. r lhe friends of the unfortunate aviator arc greatly incensed at the action of grim souvenir hunters. These vandals grim souvenir hunters. These vandals, it is said, tore the collar from the dead mqn s nock and . stole the cap he wore. Hie police were powerless to prevent tins despoiling of the dead. The huge crowd, their, curiosity excited, pressed round the scone of the mishap, and swept the police back by their impetuous onrush. \ ■