AERIAL FLIGHT.

Manawatu Times, Volume LXV, Issue 1901, 22 April 1913, Page 5

AERIAL FLIGHT.

Auckland, Yesterday. The enormous crowds whicn thronged the Domain and its precincts on Saturday afternoon in eager anticipation of Mr "Wizard" Stone's monoplane flight went home dissatisfied. The afternoon was perfectly calm and fine. Crowds * swarmed into the Domain, and by 3 i o'clock over 10,000 had paid for adi mission. I The mouoplano flew undoubtedly, and that is about all that can be said (says the Herald in its report). The great white machine skimmed lightly over the broad expanse of green, with its pinious outstretched for flight, ami lifted gracefully into the air without a quiver. Taking a slanting course the monoplane soared out and up; then, even while the first outburst of cheering and handclapping echoed across the cricket ground, it suddenly tilted to one side, dipped uncertainly, and was seen swinging round towards Parnell instead of keeping straight on towards Newmarket. For a few seconds it held along with wobbling wing, but speedily alighted with a bump on the slope of the opposite hill in the Outer Domain, and New Zealand's first aeroplane flight had come to an abrupt and unexpected end! The actual time of flight was 35sec, a distance of 500 or 600 yards being covered.