Millard County Chronicle | 1912-06-06 | Page 2 | Daring Aviator I? Four Hundred Feet

DARING AVIATOR I FOUR HUNLHED FEET Philip Parmalee, One of the Daring Pupils of the Wright Brothers, Meett Death at Washington Fair. North Yakima. Wash Philip O Parmalee, one of the daring young pupils of the Wright Itrothors and holder of the American endurance record In aviation, fell to his death on Saturday before the eyes of thou sands of visitors to the fair grounds here. The expert, who was lined to remaining re-maining in the air for hours without accident, had been up only three minutes min-utes when a contrary gust of wind caught the tall of his aeroplane and turned it completely over. Parmalee clung to the framework, but the plane ehot straight to the , Toi'l'd from, a height tif 40(1 . feet. When It crumpled Itself Into a nhape less heap In a field three miles distant dis-tant from the fair grounds, the young vstor falling beneath the wreckage. Parmalee was a native of Michigan, 27 years old and unmarried.