NEW ADMIRALTY AEROPLANE.

Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13825, 23 September 1913, Page 5

NEW ADMIRALTY AEROPLANE.

S THE LONDON ACCIDENT. DISASTROUS ENDING TO A DEg MONSTRATION. r London, Sept 21. The Admiralty has ordered a, \ Sop--2 with aeroplane. It will be the biggest in the world, and, will be fitted with floats for waterplano purposes. The machine will carry two engines, a pilot j and two passengers,''and a gun. Its speed will be 75 miles an hour. Pickles, whose accident was reported yesterday, did not compete in the race round London. He was giving a de•s monstration , when the accident occurred. Mrs Stocks was- an experienced pilot. She induced a passenger to give up his seat for her. Pickles, when turning, steered in the direction of the spectators' tea pavilion, and was preparing to descend ,-. when the engine misfired. The mach^ "me wobbled, causing feet to slip. He lost control of the machine, _■'which was almost righted, and it sudJdenly dived 30 feet. I The spectators and officials fled, two ■of the latter being slightly injured. , Many had narrow escapes. Pickles and Mrs Stocks were completely buried in the wreckage. Pickles, in addition to a fractured leg, sustained severe gashes on the thigh and abdomen, and a crushed foot. Both were conveyed to a hospital. Pickles has undergone an operation, and his condition is serious. Mrs Stocks has not yet regained consciousness. The doctors are hopeful that Pickles , and Mrs Stocks will recover.