AERONAUTICS.
AVIATOE'S NASTY FALL. By Telegraph—Press Association—Cop/right (Bee. August 11, 11.20 p.m J London, August 11. While M. Macar Heim was making a flight in a bi-plane, • tho steering-gear broke, and aviator and aeroplane fell 240 feet to tho ground, tho machine turning over four times in tho descent, M. Heim is unconscious, but alive. "V HE. BEOOKINS KILLED. New York,' August 10. Walter Brookins, who on July 0 last, using a Wright bi-plane, . attained an altitudo of 0100 feet in a flight above Atlanta C|ty, was fatally injured at Asbury Park, New York.'
In landing, he had to make a desperate attempt to avoid tho crowd, and. his machine overturned. Many onlookers were injured. LONG OVERSEA FLIGHT. . London, August 10. • Mr. Robert, Loraine, tho actor and aviator, made a flight over-the sea from Blackpool to. Llandudno (Wales), a distance of 65 miles. Tho time occupied was 93min. ..
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 893, 12 August 1910, Page 5
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