NO HOPE FOR HAMEL.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 125, 27 May 1914, Page 5

NO HOPE FOR HAMEL.

THE SEAKCH ABANDONED. ite... ivcd 5.50 a.m. i LONDON. May 26. The wars-hips have abandoned the search lor Mr. l.ustav Ilamel. the noted airman, who disappeared during an attempt to itu-f the Channel in wild foggy weather on Saturday afternoon.

One of Ilamei's last appearances a t j •he Hen,lon Aerodrome, made in the middle of l.i-t month. Mas thus described | :.v the -Daily Telegraph":— j 'Now cimc' Hamel. and who shall describe tbe marvellous feats of this very | virtuoso ol the a:r': Seemingly, there is not!iin_' impossible to this youthful pilot. I who controls his powerful machine with | the touch of a master artist. Vanished ' arc the terrific dive, the violent wrench, upwards, that thrilling moment of -v-- j penso and doubt whether the aeroplane! would recover itself. Over be turns his j machine wi.li a ton. h. upward, backward, sideways: it i- ail a matter of indifference to him. And it is .lone with I the most exquisite grace imaginable, j with the absence of any perceptible | effort. Truly these pilots of the new school revel in their absolute mastery over their mount?, and exorcise it to the full. Yd in ::ie thri'.l there i- the keen jsenec that the pilot is hurtling to imminten' destruction when he dashes headj |..nir. pointing perfectly vertically down to earth, with the little projecting head -training forward plainly discernible. He |is falling at over 100 milov an hour: another two seconds and all i.- lost, but I with a tou.h of his lover he swings upivvarj and .-kirns away merrily in love] I (light. You have but. to inspect his jacropiane afterwards in order, to realise :iy the s'.ai-kness of the stout steel cables i the enormous strains they have weath.erPiJ in safety and to appreciate to the I full the art of the aeronautical engineer J I who has rendered these things possible. | | Of all Iliimoi's evolutions his tail-slide ■is tho most impressive; in a graceful swoop the nose of his monoplane points -kvward: for a second or more 'no in ! thus poised motionless; then, without a I .-.iu:i.l—tor his motor :- stopped—lie begins to slip down tail ui'st. Suddenly •he aeroplane heel- over, and with a ! gre.il lurch pitch.s iorwar.l. with a e11d-,,1,-nnes- that would hurl any pilot like a ! proje.-tile from his -at but for the tact What he i- so. ure'.v -trapped in. A giddy dive. :,:..! away -..eel- the maciiine oli.-e more a; r- eighty mile- ;\n hour or -0.