AERIAL NAVIGATION

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 16, 4 September 1911, Page 5

AERIAL NAVIGATION

JEERED TO HIS' DEATH. New York, September 3. Frisbie was driven to attempt his fatal flight by the jeers of tho spectators, who called him a fakir and a fraud. Frisbie, before his flight, declared ho thought the machine would not stand it. At Norton, Kansas, the aviator Frisbie fell one hundred feet, while giving an exhibition flight. The motor pinned him to tho ground, crushing his left side. He died in a few minutes. He fell forty feet tho previous day and was unhurt. A GOOD PERFORMANCE. Paris, September 3. I 1 ourney aeroplaned continuously for eleven and a half hours, covering 4oov miles, at tho Rue aerodrome. A FATAL FALL. (Received 4, '8.5 a.m.) New York, September 3. Brown, a young aeronaut, in tho presence of a great crowd, while making a fireworks display from a balloon car in North Carolina, fell in a parachute into a shallow artificial lake and was drowned. FURTHER FATALITIES. (Received 4, 8.5 a.m.; Paris, September 3. 11 idle Lieutenant De Grailly was at a height of 1500 feet, near Tro,v,, his motor exploded and tho aeroplane somersaulted several times. The tank took fire, and Do Grailly was burned to a cinder. Captain Gamine, wbile aeropianmg at Nangis, fell 600 feet and was k;lb ed.