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Identifier: outing58newy (find matches)
Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
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ops along the back stretch. One tree stood out a little distance infront of the others, and while endeavor-ing to steer clear of it, the left wing ofthe aeroplane caught one of the topbranches, a big limb of the tree wasbroken off, and the aeroplane spunaround as if on a pivot, and then itturned completely over, looping the loopin air as it fell. The front control, thesides, and the tail were uninjured, butthe wheels of the running gear wereforced up through the lower plane andthe engine was broken loose by the jarof the shock. Effect of a Fall They told me afterwards that Icrawled out of the wreckage and said Iwas not hurt and begged McCurdy, whoinsisted on taking me back to the hotel,to remain and finish the flights. Laterin the evening I woke up in my bed inmy room without even the faintest recol-lection of what had happened. The lastimpressions that I remembered were ofgoing out to the grounds in a taxicabwith the other fellows. But by delicatequestions on my part and from the an-
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Photograph by Pictorial Ae-ais Co., N. Y, BANKING AT THE TURNS LOOKS EASY TO THE SPECTATORS, BUT IT IS ONEOF THE MOST DANGEROUS PARTS OF THE GAME. swers that I received the whole storywas made clear to me. A day or twolater I began to feel a stiffness in thecords of my neck, due probably to thegreat concentration of mind during therapid course of events which were toospeedy for my senses to follow, and part-ly due to a possible shock. All theseeffects finally passed entirely away, butthis experience serves to show the seri-ous results that may follow even a slightmiscalculation among many which thecomplicated conditions demand. The aviator is confronted with an-other curious feature of the aeroplanewhich can hardly exist in the mind ofa person who has not had the actual ex-perience of these conditions in the air.It is almost impossible for an observeron the ground to conceive of the resultswhich follow the tipping or the tiltingof the aeroplane while banking on acurve, or making a spi

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