UP IN AIR.
FRANCE’S WAR MINISTER. WATCHES REVIEW. (By Cable.—Press Assn—Copyright) (Australian Press Assn. —United Service). (Received This day, 9.40 a.m.) PARIS, September 16. The Minister for AVar, M. Painleve, Wilbur Wright’s first passenger in 1908, without announcing his intentions donned an overcoat and airman’s helmet, entered the two-seater aeroplane of Will Acoublay, and accompanied by three aeroplanes conveying General Carefiee Pujo Hergault, rose above Paris and watched the air fleet of 350 ’planes passing below in formation towards Le Bourget at a height of from thirty-six hundred to forty-five hundred feet. M. Painleve, after the review, forwarded a letter of congratulation to the air director.
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Waipawa Mail, Volume L, Issue 1, 17 September 1928, Page 3
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