The Archive · 1924

An Unlucky Landing

After all the false alarms, apt. WOisy was missed until he was finite close to the course. He.was flying from the direction of Shanghai, not particularly high, but steadily and at a fair spried, when soddenly a great shout went up and hho wax seen well on the way to the course. He flew directly over the public stand, civeled the course and then went off towards the railway station and was lost sight of behind the trees, In a few minutes hho was sighted on the way back, flying much lower and at a reduced speed. He shot over the old owners' stand, flew in an are past the Golf Club,' dropping lower and lower and,' after touching ground twice, Ianded on the thirteenth green However, he over-ran the green, bombed on the rough ground and mare a leap towarlls the ditch Tunning sevoss the ground there. To the dismay of the spectators, the machine was seen to pitch forward, turn half over and then apparently break in two, Men dashed across the ground from: all directions to vender And: the astuteness of aviators was demonstrated by the fact that, although Capt. d'Oisy landed-at a complete wreck and never could be Put right. Besides the damage to the fuselage bars, he said the propeller was broken and probably also the shaft, the fuselage was. badly damaged' and there were many minor breakages. The aluminium bare could not be replaced here and he doubted whether the machine could be put right even if it were the best repair shop. This gentleman explained that it was impossible to tie an aviator down to a landing at a definite spot and from a definite direction and that it was patent to flying men that, the wind as it was Capt. Oisy would not attempt a run from opposite the far corner of the public stand toa landing on the eighteenth green. The direction [ines on the ground would not help him, for he would follow the smoke from the signal fire. He made his landing in the right way, bat pro-ably did not see the ditch, or else had not sufficient room in which to come down and avoid it.

One. of the feature film making records in Shanghai was yesterday

id Motion Picture Department, performed by the B. AT. aes they photographed the landing Capt. Oisy, and the subsequent smash-up of his machine. The com-

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