DELIGHTS OF FLYING.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXII, Issue 9701, 4 November 1909, Page 7

DELIGHTS OF FLYING.

f Miss Bacon, who has made many balloon ascents for scientific observaetion, was the ouly lady to fly at Bheims. She is delighted with her experience, aud most grateful to tlie gallaut young Frenchman, M. Sommer, who gave her a seat ou his biplane. . "I weut to Kheims," said Miss Bacou, "determiued to fly at all hazards I wrote to twelve of the living nieu, aui uext morning received a" visit from M. Soiumer, who promised to take me up. 1 sat in his shed ail Saturday aud Sunday afternoons, and at last," ou Sunday evening, when all the races were over and the aviators were flying about like bats in the dusk for their own amusement, he said I might come. "I was, I believe, the first passenger he had ever carried, but lie rose with me aud Hew for three or four miles at thirty miles au hour without the slightest difficulty. "I had no special seat—l just sat behind him, with nir back to the radiator.

" Ballooning is nothing iv comparison with flying. Ou the aeroplane you have a sensation of immense motiou. It is the most lovely sensation you can possibly imagine. "I was only aware by experiencing this sensation that we had left the

earth. I was only conscious by the fjj||Lcessation of it tl.'iit we had returned Wx-o earth again. There was no jerk or jar on rising or lauding. '■We flew under beautiful conditions, with tiie moon rising;, the grandstaud illuminated in the distance, aud other flying men all around. On one turn we just missed Farman, wlo said afterwards it was the 'closest shave' he ever had. Another time we flew over horses, sending them scampering in the dark. ,.