AVIATION.
ANOTHER TRAGEDY.
[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [Uniter Press Association.! London, December 2.
Captain Wildman Lushington, of the naval wing of the Flying Corps, was killed at Eastchurch by falling fifty feet, through his biplane side-slipping. Captain Fawcett, bis passenger, -escaped. Captain Lushington piloted Mr Churchill in several flights on Saturday.
The Westminster Gazette protests against Mr Churchill’s flying. It asserts that it does not serve any useful purpose, and may be regarded as reflecting on others’ courage.
SENSATIONAL EXPERIENCE.
Belgrade, December 3,
Vedriues, the aviator, states that when h.‘ was passing over a treis .at Valadine, on Die I>ai»*i*oe, at o height of 4000 feet guns were fired at Ins irpnopl I he noohni was n-r injured, but the concession was tremendous, and*the monoplane nearly cap-fi/cu. He,, iimeUi • ascended to a height of 9000 feet.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 80, 4 December 1913, Page 5
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