FELL LIKE A SHOT
LINDSAY CAMPBELL’S DEATH
MONOPLANE WENT WRONG WHILE TURNING.
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright LONDON, August 4.
Mr Lindsay Campbell, the Australian airman who fell irom his monoplane and was killed at Brooklands yesterday, ascended in a slight mist and a gusty wind. In turning a oe't'npr the monoplane side-slipped and fell 800 ft. Campbell’s chest was crushed, and he died in a few minutes. Mr Dempster, an eye-witness of the accident, states that Campbell was too high to effect a convenient landing in the aerodrome, which was 600 yards distant. In making a circle downwards h© turned a complete somersault, but, by an extraordinary effort, he righted the machine 200 ft from the ground and started to fly to the aerodrome, but in making a turn something went wrong, and ho fell like a shot.
COLONEL CODY’S KITES
AWARD FROM THE WAR OFFICE. LONDON, August 4. The War Office has awarded Colonel Cody £SOOO in connection with his invention of man-lifting kites.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8192, 6 August 1912, Page 7
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