AERIAL NAVIGATION.
A BASE AT DOVER.
[By Electric Telegraph—Cocvcoo in [United Pkess Association.]
London, March 7. A flying corps base is being es tablished at Dover, to cost £45,000. HAWKER'S NARROW ESCAPE. Svdnev. March 7.
When Hawker was descending from a height of 7000 feet at Albury, the engine stopped a hundred feet from the ground, and the machine dived sharply. The machine was damaged, hut Hawker was uninjured.
FLIGHT AT CHRISTCHURCH
Christchurch,. March 8. Scotland made a successful ascent
in his Caudron biplane from the Addington Show Grounds yesterday afternoon, in the presence of 4000 people Tlie aviator went up 1000 feet, and gave a line exhibition, landing safelv.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 57, 9 March 1914, Page 5
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