AERIAL FLIGHTS AND disasters.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2114, 3 April 1914, Page 7

AERIAL FLIGHTS AND disasters.

NINE MKX ON A BIPLANE. 8y Tcl()!jraii.U--l , ress Aeeaciaifen-CopyHght-Paris, Jprjf i," Arat®r Garias, -harrying nin& passengers in a Mplasifi at ClnirtiTs. roso to an ■ altitude of 5230s't. \ ——„ TEIPIJD TRAGEDY. PEsris, April 1, j M. Esnile Vedrkes, j'oii.iigcr brothej l of _M. Jujes Vecliiiies, tho weM,nown aviat-flr, was killed while testing a mono-' lufuv.c at Pierre 'i'ustulat and a passenger, wlnle testing jiu aeropluiie fit the 'Champagne Aerodronwj struck a pylon (gateway) biilf an heur after Vedrinos waSiltillccl, [and both occu.pttttts <jf'tho macliiiio were. : killed. ' (Ree. Apri.l 3, 0,5 a.ip.) •p- t, i. i • pa!,is ' A l ,rii 2 ' Jestnlat s- nsa-chnm iraa suspended from tlio pylon: It ignited, a-iui liotli men were incimsrato}. ZEPPELIN'AIRSHIP CROSSES THE ALPS. 'Times" Sydney '®u«" Scfviccg, . . Berlin, April iA new ZetJpcliß.airship, -rising at J-111! (! rTC tish a fen, crosscd the Alps south of Lulw Constance, . People on tie ship exchanged gi-eot-itigs' ?ntli the observatory thero, jREAK FLYING JUSTIFIED. "I'ipios" and Sydiie# "Sua" Stefvicce. (Kt'C. April 2, g p.m.) . lxi.tr i „ L .° ntlo!l » April 2. - Mi, tiio aviator, ieoi-tuing lie.tow tl)0 members of tho AiTonaiitieal Society, said that tho early troubles of amtion were duo to ino-xperiei-ico aud lack of contidi'.nce. The present-jiigh siajidard of eliii-i«:cy was chicfly tlio re.suit of intproremeHt in p|)otib«. The speaker InsfcilM freak'flying, and doglared that "logpors" and up-3ido-down flyers liad inereiisod their eolificlelice ■enormously by their experiences.