A BLIND MAN'S FLIGHT

Evening Star, Issue 15512, 6 June 1914, Page 7

A BLIND MAN'S FLIGHT

What flying feels iiko to a Mind man was graphically described, by Mr Uun Williams, after covering six nines in an aeroplane at the rate of 65 miles w how. in oompanv with the Tat* Mr Ckistftv Hamel at Hendon. After the flight, he Sjtid that since his blindness he- had fie-Per enjoved anything bo much. "I felt a* though I Were on the back of seme great seagull, flying through a. deris* mist. Blindness is oblivion, bat when 1 was up in the air I felt mist, not darfefjeas." About three months ago. Mr WaiwaHf. while iourneyiriß back W his liihW land from British "Columbia, lost hi* eight. H* had been married nearly two fe&fe, but was travelling alone. One day he. noticed the things around him turning dim, fcnd then for days everything became darker and darker. When he reached Paddington he mads his way with the aid of ft stick, for there was no one to me6t him. His home and friends were in Cornwall. Braille books have brought light into Mr Williams's life. Sailing through Space in Mr Hamel's monoplane, hj« enjoyed** raw sensation, all the more wonderful sin<» h* has never seen a flylna; machine. When he alighted, he longingly fondled the aide' of the monoplane, and said how sorry he was tho flight had been so short. Th* wind astonished him, but most ofa.ll the power of the aviator to conquer it. * A man driving the machine," he added, with a little touch of envy, "must feel lite a god." Mrs Williams was one of the moat , interested, Pi * &*4? atanbW $t ■