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Show The Code of the Air. The rapid progress of the art of aerial navigation has turned attention atten-tion to the necessity of establishing a "law of the road" for aeroplanes as soon as experience shall have shown what its main provisions should be. Already, say those who are most interested inter-ested in such legislation, at least one source of avoidable danger has been discovered. Several recent accidents have shown that one aeroplane cannot can-not safely pass close above another, for the currents produced are liable to cause the under machine to break from control and plunge downward. It was in this way that the aeronaut Rawlinson, at Nice, suddenly found himself plunged into the sea. A rival flyer had, unnoticed by him, passed over his head. He did not discover until later what had caused Ms sudden sud-den mishap. In another case an aeroplane, aero-plane, flying over another which was rolling across the ground preparatory io flight, was overturned by the current cur-rent from the passing machine. |