SCIENCE OF FLIGHT.

Mataura Ensign, 26 September 1913, Page 5

SCIENCE OF FLIGHT.

PECOUO'S GREAT DIVE. AN ASTOUNDING FEAT. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH COPYRIGHT. PER UNITED TRESS ASSOCIATION. Received September 26, 11.30 a.m. LONDON, Sept. 25. M. Pegoud, at Brooklands, before a large crowd, strapped to a Bleriot monoplane, climbed 3000 ft in the air, dived, turned the aeroplane over 'headlong and then, sideways, recovered and volplaned to earth. Ho repeated this performance twice, completely looping the loop, and gliding upside down for 700 yards!. There was intense excitement. The crowd bore Pegoud shoulder-high round the enclosure.

While the flying aws in progress flames broke out amidst hundreds of motor-cars belonging to the- spectators owing to the smashing of a petrol tank. The whole line was threatened because the cars were closely packed. Extinguishers confined the fire to four cars.

Early this month M. Pegoud, securely strapped to the new Bleriot monoplane, ascended to a height of 3000 ft and then caused the monoplane to drop 1500 ft. He made the machineturn over and riso sharply, thereby looping the loop. The wheels of the aeroplane were' uppermost for a distance of 400 yards. M. Pep-owl, by means of the Bleriot stabiliser, caused the aeroplane to return to its normal position, and descended safelv. Pegoud has the certificate of the Aero Club of France, and is one of the staff of pilots attached to the Bleriot flying school at Buo, near Paris.

DEAD AIRMAN'S DEPENDENTS

8T ELECTRIC Ti:a.'. f*H COPYRIGHT. TIMES—SYDNEY f.i'W SPECIAL CABLES. Received September 26, 8.30 n.m l . LONDON, Sept. 2ft. The Colonel Cody Fund has reached £I2OO.

Colonel Cody, the airman, w-lio, with a passenger, Mr W. H. B. Evans, the celebrated cricketer, was killed in- the fall of his aeroplane near Farnborough on Thursday, will be buried l in the officers' ground at the military cemetery at Farm Hill, Aldershot, this afternoon (stated 'The Daily Mail' of August 11). The funeral will be semi-military. There is a strong feeling that the dead airman's great services to his adopted) country should be recognised in some practical form. Mrs Cody Ihas been left in poor circumstances. All the money her husband earned lie spent in his work, and according to his son Leon liabilities which have to be met will allow of no provision for Mrs Cody. "The little aeronautical stock my father possessed will be sold, but it is not likely to fetch, much," Mr Leon Cody said. Colonel Cody's three sons are all determined to "hang together and see our mother through.' Frank and Leon, both married, were employed by their father and will have to find fresh em--1 ployment. For seven years Colonel Cody ;had supported a widow cousin of his wife and her three little girls, aged respectively seven, eighty and 10, and they are sttill living with the Cody family. , . Colonel Cody did great service to his adopted country by his development of flying. Flying experiments are costly, and the expense was especially burdensome to one who, like the dead airman, had for many years no financial backing. 'fii© prizes he won. amounted! to many thousands of pounds, but almost every penny was swallowed' up by his experiments. It is the sad fact tliat Mrs Cody is left in unfavorable circumstances.