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Show U1IIV ESCAPE FOR MIEHICM AVIATOR Captain Cody Comes to Grief in Spectacular Flight, but Escapes Es-capes Serious injury. IiOtfCASTlSK, England. Oct. lu Disaster for the biplane of Captain Codv, the .American, and a miraculous escape from. dcntl ior the. aviator .11 iui self, furnished a sensational opening for tho second day of aviation week. Tho weatlier was i ileal for flying. After Af-ter some experimental work, Cody started 011 a flight and had traveled a thousand yards, when, taking a corner at great speod, tho front wheel touched the ground and the machine toppled over with a. crash. Cody pitched forward in tho midst of (he wreckage As fellow aviators and ambulaneo attendants camo up, Cody crawled from tho jumble of broken brok-en bamboo rods and tangled wires unhurt, un-hurt, save for a gash in the face. Tho real competitions started with a flight nf -five circuits of Ihe course, the first prizo for which event is $:i00. M. do la Grange, iu a Bleriot. monoplane, mono-plane, was the first; to completo the distance, dis-tance, covering the five and one-half miles in 11 minutes, -' seconds. Roger Sominer, iu a Parman biplane, ascended while M. de la Grange was still in the air. and for the first timo in Groat Britain two aeroplanes wore seen flying together. Smnmor camo. to earth after ticcor.plishiug oifly a little over two miles. Sommer, however. w:us soon iu the nir aguiu and flying low he circled the course lap by lap until he had completed nine miles and 1350 yards in -I minutes, 15 seconds. This was the best flight ever witnessed in Great Britain. Other aviators followed, but accomplished accom-plished nothing spectacular. |