TWO MORE FLYING TRAGEDIES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9541, 19 June 1911, Page 5

TWO MORE FLYING TRAGEDIES.

IN PARIS-BRUSSELS-LONDON RACE.

(Br Bliotbio TBiMBAFH-CoPYaiwi.) (Peb Pbkbb Association.) Received June 19, 9.30 a.m. PARIS, June 18. Lieut. Prinoeteau, who was intending to start to-day in the Pans-Bras-sels-London race, was practising on a Bleriot monoplane at fssy, vhen the machine fell and burst into flames. The lieutenant when taken from the ruins was charred and unrecognisable. Le Martin, another competitor on a Bleriot, was fatally dashed into a twe. The tragedy is attributed to a> faulty propellor. A TERRIBLE DEATH. Received June 19, 12.10 p.m. PARIS, June 18. Princeteau met his death in the presence of his brother. Ho made superhuman efforts to escape from the wreckage, but the smoke suffocated him . The flames were bo fierce that the machino was unapproachable. Dnlger. a third competitor, was igverely injured at Soissons. :■; APREcISION. a; THE HAGUE, June 18. Owing to Genera] Berteaux'i fieath the municipalitv has prohibited the passage of aeroplane* and airships over the capital. e 4\ AIRMAN'S TERRIFIC SPEED. : DOES 155 MILES IN AN HOUR. (Delayed Cable.) ">;>.. . PARIS, JuncT.il. "L'Auto Journal" estimates that;..M. Vedrine, the winner of the recent Pans-.. Madrid air race, at times attained the prodigious velocity of 155 miles an hour. | He covered tho 1U miles between'-'Dijon and St Laurientics-Macon in 30 minutes.'l Tho journal quotes the airman as-saying:] that ho was pushed by a wind I fofc;\wjs j so violent -at times that the tail;:pf;:.his machino was perpendicular in steady of horizontal. , ;";^":| He also encountered "wind pockets,;,or,: "holes in -tho air" that caused .frightful, descents, sometimes at the rate 0f;.900ft.-" in from two to three suffered severely from eye strain;- ;; ,-^- EXCITEMENT AT ALDEI^HOJ*:^ KING'S NARROW ESCAPE ■ . LONDON, jimo 3'.. During an exhibition, flight witlnflj. tin-?, usually largo aeroplane at Aldershpt yes;'; torday Mr Cody, the British army -aeronautical expert, created great oonjjtcrna--; tion among the spectators by jswoMingV down at a terrific speed, and passing;close; to the ground within a few fcct,qf< where; King George- was standing. -,.'" J/.: Something evidently went wrong withthe aeroplane, but at the crucial, Mr Cody recovered control of the; nia-:-chine. •[■■■■ As it swept past, however, it camp-so-; close to the Rojfal visitors their; hats were- blown off by a blast of.air fromthe rapidlv -revolving propellers,-.... ..;,. Startling as the experience, ms, tlie ■ King retained his composure admirably.