AEROPLANE WRECKED.
the wrights: ■ ■ i PULLED AWR<W.;.LEVER'. ' A . BY TELEGHAPH —PHESS ASSOCIATION-TCOPYHIOHT !' .''V ; , ■ ' .'-i';;''' '•' London, May 15. ' The "Daily Telegraph's" correspondent at, Manteo, North Carolina,, .states. that the brothers, , Orville;£&d 'i^ilb.'uf.' Wright, mado a. circular flight'of _ seven miles,in .their, "airship in seven minutes forty seconds. "Wilbur Wright pulled a wrong lever, causing the aeroplane to suddenly descend, wrecking it. The .Wrights escaped unhurt. The greatest secrecy' is", being .observed by the Wrights over : their 'experiments;'- "
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 200, 18 May 1908, Page 7
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75AEROPLANE WRECKED. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 200, 18 May 1908, Page 7
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