ROLL'S FLIGHT.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIV, Issue 126, 4 June 1910, Page 5

ROLL'S FLIGHT.

jFOR AN IHGHTY-GUINEA OITP.

iEXCITED dROWDS AT DOViER-

[PBESS ASSOCIATION.] (Received Jfone 3, 11J30 p.m.) I JLQNDON, June S. -The Hon. C. S. :Rolls, in making Ms flight across the Channel and back,, T qujckly rose 600 feet. The highest point reached was 1000 feet. Three torpedoes followed the avia--tor.

Rolls had no trouble in steering, but •the wind caused a deviation or his jflhortrjffeight biplaaae. He circled ißTOund sthe semaphore -station at Sanjgate, .not at Calais, The biplane was fitted with air Jbags as a safeguard iin case of imrmersion. There"was immense excitement at 3)over when the crowd® realised that IRolls was unexpectedly returning. The^ biplane circled round the «astle, ana Rolls alighted sixty yards * £rom his shed. The only prize attached to the flight is an -eighty-guinea cup.