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Show fflffSS JfTliEl Aviator Has an Attack Similar to Sea Sickness New York, August 29. "Air sicklies, sick-lies, ' a nausea similar to that ot sea sickness, has made its appearance among the aviators at Shecpshead Uay, adding a new danger to the perils per-ils of aviation. Eugene Ely, whose hlyh flights and graceful glides delighted de-lighted the crowds at the two weeks' meet on the Coney Island Jockey club's grounds, told his fellow airmen air-men at the close of the meet of a violent attack of air sickness which fco experienced for the first time yesterday yes-terday He was a quarter of a mile in the air on the last lap ni a twelvo-tnlle twelvo-tnlle flight when the attack came on. He said that he suddenly began to the earth rocking and pitching below Mm. Spots danced before hla eyes, his muscles weakened and all the symptoms of a marked dizziness struck hlni, au he swung through the sir at a 43-mlle-an-huur gait. lie knew that his life depended on his mastering the attack and ho gripped the levers with every ounce of his remaining strength, dropping from tho thousand-foot Incline to earth at an angle which only a dangerous dan-gerous emergency could Justify. He could barely jrlind alone when the crowd In the lulield if the rae track gathered around him, but the rttack passed away after he had been on terra flrma for a few mln-u'.es. |