Page 8 Advertisements Column 2

North Otago Times, Volume CV, Issue 13939, 24 July 1917, Page 8

AVIATOR'S TILT AT MIRAGE, The following remarkable story of n mirage in the clouds is told by a young British Plying Corps officer in a. letter to his father (says the Daily Express): [ had often wondered what it would feel like to see a machine coming straight for one and. to know that a collision was inevitable. I had the experience this afternoon, only the collision did not tako place. I was on patrol with five other machines over the line, and hail just gone into a cloud bank. Before going in ] saw the 'bus on my right turning in front of me. AH'of a- sudden I saw a machine, the same as my own, appear out of the. cloud about fifty feet away, making straight for 111 c. .Instinctively I jammed my nose Imnl down, and went as near a nose dive as,, possible, the other 'bus did. the same. I turned; the other turned into me. I was in a cold perspiration all'over by this time, so I thought: 'Here goes; if 'J am going to crash it might as well be'complete. 1 ' So straight) for it I went. We got closer and closer, and bill! my machine and—its mirage in tli e" clouds met.