NEARLY A CAPSIZE.
AIRMAN’S CLOSE CULI
FLYING IN A 60-MILE GALE
r INDEPENDF.KT PRESS CABLE] LONDON, April 30. Mr Gustavo Hamel,' the well-known British airmail, who has made several notable flights of late, narrow‘y escaped meeting with disaster yesterday. With a young lady, Miss Fa ires, as a passenger, ho was flying in a Bleriot monoplane at Hendon, when, id the high wind that \yas blowing, the machine was once within ail ace of turning over. Mr Hamel, however, averted the capsize by cleverly landing his - plane amongst, some trees. Ho started to reaseend, notwithstanding that a galo was blowing at the rate If 60 miles an hour, but was finally dissuaded from persisting in the attempt.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 3826, 8 May 1913, Page 5
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117NEARLY A CAPSIZE. Gisborne Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 3826, 8 May 1913, Page 5
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