Ogden Daily Standard | 1915-10-18 | Page 11 | Admiral Peary Has Thrills in Air

ADMIRAL PEARY HAS T5RUXS IN AIR i M IH 1 j HAH Admiral Peary ready to go up in flying machine. , , ' jjl J Hear Admiral Robert E. Peary, discoverer of the North Pole, had hta i l bH first trip in the air a few days ago, when he was taken for a flight of sev- j 11 H oral minutes' duration by Prank A. Burnside, a young American aviator, J'JU H flying a Curtiss flying boat at Long Branch, N. Y- The famouB explorer i.lli H had a most thrilling experience, when the machine was at an altitude of lilM 'H 100 feet the motor stopped. The machine tipped suddenly to the left, h,IHI j righted itself, and Burnside guided it in spiral swoops downward until it , jfjj rj rested on the water. Those on shore, who had seen tho machine tip and Iflj - then begin its spiral downward, sighed with relief. ml Jl