OCR Text |
Show ATTEMPTS DOUBLE j LOOP AND IS KILLED! SAL'MUR, France, July 6. Georges Le Gagneux, one of the best-known French aviators, was killed today while attempting a double loop in the air. He had completed the second loop when the propeller broke as the aviator was finishing a glide on the wing, and tho machine plunged into the river Loire. Le Gagneux had been prominent in aviation since lOtiS. Jn 1 f10 ho made the flight from Paris to Brussels, and 1 several times established the world's! altitude record. His best record for height was made last year at St. ! Raphael, when he ascended 2U,29o feet, j |