ACCIDENTS AND ESCAPES.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLV, Issue XLV, 12 August 1910, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND ESCAPES.

A FALL OK J I" FEET. [Press Association —Copy right.] UEKLIN. Thiir.-day. Whiie Macar II.■ im was. l.iplan ing his steering apparatus broke, and he fell 210 feel, his :iMv].:;iiic turning over four times. Ifeim i- uuco::sc iuii.-. but alive. THE CLEMENT BAYARD AIRSHIP. READY TO CROSS THE CHANNEL. (Received Aug. 12. 0.20 a.m.) PARIS, Thursday. The Clement-Bayard airship made excellent flights near Paris, and is m.u ready for the journey to London. LEAP FROM A BURNING BALLOON. (Received Aug. 12. 9.20 a.m.) BERLIN. Thursday. An aeronaut leaped from a balloon which had caught fire and fell on to the roof of a girls' school at Augsburg. The roof collapsed, but the man escaped uninjured. ACCIDENT TO THE HON. ALANBOYLE. A SLOW RECOVERY. (Received Aug. 12. 8.20 a.m.) The Hon. Alan Boyle is slowly im proving, but has not regained his me meory. It is hoped that he will be sufHcientlv recovered to be removed to Scotland in a month. (The Hon. Alan Boyle, son of the Earl of Cork, was flying on a monoplane at a meeting at Bournemouth on .July 16tli last, when Jii.s machine struck a mound in the field and turned a somersault. Tim aviator was thrown t<> the ground and sustained concussion of the brain. On duly 20th lie was still unconscious. but was later said to b e tslowlv recovering-) An agreement has been readied, says "Outing." between the Wright brothers and the Aero Club of America, by which the former's rights under the pending litigation relating to the infringement of patent on the part of American and foreign aeroplane inventors, are recognised. Those who see in the suits brought b\- the Dayton inventors only a disposition eto seize and hold a crippling industry, are quick to criticise this as a conjunction of unbridled tviannv and abject supineness. In reality, neither partv to the. agreement i.s either tyrannical or supine, for once the suits' are brought and the injunctions .secured, the position of alleged' infringers, whether native or foreign, is difficult, not to sav dangerous. The Wrights have volunteered to remove this danger b\- agreeing to license all elleged infringing aeroplanes for a "•reasonable sum.""'