BALLOONING.
i ■' ARRIVAL IN A FOREST AT MIDNIGHT. MANY "DPS AND DOWNS. BTTEtSonAfn—fbess xssoolAfioN— ooriniGnt. s •: - - London, February: Si / ■ [ ' Mrs. Assheton Harbord, accompanied by ... Mr. 0. Pollook as pilot, made an exciting • balloon -journey from London. - '"■ ■■■'■' The. balloon travelled fifty miles an hour, , and descended iir tho Ferdun forest (France) - during., the night, after many rapid. asccn ts .... and descents, i- . t It alighted. safely,- but tho ear overturned «nd ripped tho balloon. ' : .
WOMAN BALLOONISTS. The record aerial voyage in England in 1906 ,■: J r4t l considM-qd .to be that, made by-M»> lIW- i bard, Mr,' IV. H.' flutler, and Mr, G.Brownv, • r Z e,l kr f«w\'-.'BattWßea Gasworks to : BridII (Yorks.) by night-in Boptomboi In . theyear Mr. Butler, Mrs. & Brewer, flffm W™ iJ n ,° r in > balloOn I ? A a ",r7 prlll ross J?>e Channel to Saiuor, , near Boulogne. Mrs. Brewer was llie first l woman to orois the Channel In 1907 Mtfi Harbord was Oho of a party, of balloonkt 1 ; 1 •who,crossed ; the;Channel.,; f' t «««oomK81
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 113, 5 February 1908, Page 7
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