AERIAL NAVIGATION.
TRIP ACROSS NIAGARA FALLS. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright, NEW YORK, Jane 23. Lincoln Beachy, a Caliiornian aviator, on a biplane, flew over Niagara Falls and swooped beneath tho arches of tho upper steel bridge down the gorge almost to the whirlpool, and landed safely on tho Canadian side after daring death in tho treacherous air currents. He flew at a speed of about 50 miles an hour. Beachy subsequently declared that ho intended'to repeat his feat. NEW YORK, June 29. (Received June 30, at 0.10 a.m.) While an aviator named Sopwith, who was aeroplajjing over New York Harbour, was passing over the steamer Olympic, whioh was outward bound, he dropped a quantity of merchandise on the liner's deck. These were the first goods ever so delivered.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 15183, 30 June 1911, Page 5
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127AERIAL NAVIGATION. Otago Daily Times, Issue 15183, 30 June 1911, Page 5
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