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Show Danger to Aviators. It is difficult to determine the cause of most aeroplane accidents, but during dur-ing the investigation which followed the fatal accident to Lieutenant Sr-velle Sr-velle recently in France an important discovery Is said to have been mada by eye-witnesses. This was that tho wing of his P.leriot broke downward Instead of upward, indicating that there was an extreme downward pressure press-ure a3 the operator started to volplane. vol-plane. Experiments lately made in France are said to have confirmed this, and it is now believed to be necessary to guy the wings as substantially above as below. |