AERIAL NAVIGATION
. LONDON, July 17. Major Hewitaon, when monoplaning on Salisbury Plain, fell and was killed. July 20. Speaking at Liverpool the Minister of War (Colonel Seely) declared that there are now 174 officers and men in the army qualified as aviation pilots, compared with 14 a year ago. Great Britain was now holding her own in the air ce she had done on the land and sea. PARIS, July 15. M. Berlin and his son fell from a monoplane at Versailles, and both were killed. Their bodies were burned in the wreckage. Lieutenant Varcin. accompanied by a passenger, flew 355 miles —a world’s nonstop record. BERLIN, July 17. The airship Schuettleland broke adrift and became a wreck. A soldier, who was carried up, fell 600 ft and was killed, and another was seriously injured.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3097, 23 July 1913, Page 25
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135AERIAL NAVIGATION Otago Witness, Issue 3097, 23 July 1913, Page 25
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