AERIAL DAREDEVIL.
PERILOUS FLIGHT OVER NIAGARA FALLS- AND THROUGH THE GORGE.
Fifty thousand people stood spanbound the other day as they watched one of the most reekless aeroplane flights that has yet been mde. Lincoln Beachey, the Californian aviator was the hero of this foolhardy feat. He rose in his aeroplane to a height of of 2,0-00 feet over Niagara Falls, and then descended at a terrific rate until he was flying only fifty feet o-ver the edge of the.precipice . Having twice crroled the falls, lie headed his aeroplane towards the gorge, and to the amazement of the onlookers sank between the rocky walls, at the foot of which boiled the rapids that proved even more than Captain Webb could conquer. . , V v Down, down h© went,; drenched by spray from the falls, until he was only a few feet above the rapids,, which he skimmed likfe a huge whit© duck. Through the centre -arch of the suspension bridge he went at fifty miles an hour, and followed the course of the rapids for a mile and a half. Then he rose, missing, the edge, of the gorge by only a few feet, and landed safely on Canadian territory.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3293, 11 August 1911, Page 7
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199AERIAL DAREDEVIL. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3293, 11 August 1911, Page 7
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