AVIATION,
SUCCESSFUL FLIGHTS BY MB. SCOTLAND.
frMSiS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) GORE, February 22
' ' . Mr Scotland, the Now Zealand aviator,, , successfully flow in. his Caudron biplane from Invercargill to Gore on ' Friday evening, the flight occupying 30 minutes, the average speed - being ovor a mile a minute. A demonstration by him on the Goto Show -grounds on Saturday afternoon was witnessed by a large and very enthusiastic, crowd. Ho made a most sUCCess-
■ ' ful flight of a quarter of an hour, going several times round the Show ground at a maximum heipht of about GOO foot, and a speed of about i>s miles an hour.
Mr Scotland proposes to give an exhiVttion of flyinfi * Q Christchurch on Saturday, 3l'arch 7th.
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Press, Volume L, Issue 14908, 23 February 1914, Page 9
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