AVIATION.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 92, 9 April 1914, Page 3

AVIATION.

FAST .FLYING. Beilin, April 8. Lieut. Hesse, of the Konigsberg Hussars, flew from Hanover to Beilin, a distance of 180 miles, in a steel Jen uni a monoplane, carrying a passenger, in a hour. KILLED AT BROOKLANDS. (Received 8.-10 a.m.) London, April 8. Sergeant Eric Denne, in a final flight tor a pupil’s certificate, while attempting a sharp spiral descent at Brooivlancls, fell 1000 ft and was killed.

“EVERYBODY’S DOING IT.’’ M Maurice Gaillaux, the noted Ercuch aviator, is travelling to Australia for the purpose of giving exhibition tlights in Australia. M. Gaillaux won ' the Pommery Cup in April, 1918, by flying from Biarritz to Cologne, a distance of 1450 kilometres. In June, 1911, he participated in the “Daily Mail” circuit, and when he was far in the lead he came down just before the end owing to a minor accident. He also traversed the English Channel with a passenger in four hours, which in-.-hided a stop at Crotoy. He is accompanied by his friend. M. L. Maistre, and his manage”, M. E. Rnpussean. .Interviewed, he was asked to explain the origin of looping the loop. “Looping,” said the little Frenchman, “was not discovered by accident. It was the logical conclusion of a flight which was purely involuntary. While in France Captain Onbry lost bis equilibrium. He tbdugTft liis last moment had come, but presently be found himself floating upside down as safely as if be were in merely a normal position. What was done by accident was naturally done later by design, and at present, to use a vulgarism, ‘everybody’s doing it.’ ” M. Gaillaux will make his first flight in Sydney. His Bleriot machine is with him.