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Show AVIATOR ALIGHTS ON WATER. Flies From Key West to Almost Within Sight of Havana. Havana. J. A. D. McCurdy, a Canadian Can-adian by birth, but now affiliated with American aviators, set a new record Dn Monday in over-the-water flights, sovering nearly a hundred miles, from Key West to within ten miles of Havana Ha-vana 'where he was compelled to drop into the sea. There he remained, his biplane Boated, by pontoons, until the lifeboat I pf the torpedo boat destroyer Terry picked him up. A break in the engine caused the failure of the completion Df the trip. |