IN THE AIR.
A BROKEN rtCDDER.
(Received 9. 8.45 a.m.)
London. Jan. 8.
Capt. Burke, of the Army Air Corps, was aeronlaning at Aidershot when the rudder snapped, rfnd he feU fifty feet, but escaped with bruises.
Hi» Fa rm an biplane was wrecked.
AN AUSTRALIAN FLIGHT.
Perth. Jan. 6.
Hammond, in a Bristol aeroplane, made another successful flight. He circled over and abound the starting point at an altitude of 2500 ft.
SEVENTY MILES AN HOUR. * (Received 9. 10.10 a.m.) Perth. Jan. 8. Hammond rose three thousand feet and covered twelve miles, the retu a journey at the rate of seventy'miles an hour.
AN AERO PAPER DELIVERY.
AIRMAN LOSES HIS WAY. (Received I*9. 1 *9. *.lO a.m.) New York, Jan. h. Didier Masson, a French aviator, making intertown flight, and deliv ering newspapers, lost his way in the mountains of Pomona. Califor nia. He landed, repaired his aeroplane. and resumed the journey, and arrived at Saubertardino five hours and forty minutes after leaving Los Angelos. While giving an exhibition at •anbervardino. his aeroplane fell • ,1 was wrecked. Masson was unhurt.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 22, 9 January 1911, Page 1
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