FLYING FEATS.
LONDON, May 2. Accompanied by a passenger, Lieutenant Biggs, of the Naval Flying School, succeeded in ascending with his aeroplane to a height of 9850ft., notwithstanding that the wind was blowing at the rate of 50 miles an hour. . Ihe pluck airman could have climbed still higher but for the petrol beginning to freeze And causing the engine to misfire. The machine made a safe descent at Eastchurch. Jules Vedrines, the well-known French airman, who, has already distinguishec* himself in a number of long-distance flights, started yesterdav to fly from Lyons, in France, to Edinburgh. He Lyons, in France, to Edinburgh. tie attempt, owing to the bad weather that prevailed.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 13070, 9 May 1913, Page 3
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