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Aviation Victims Now Number 100. Berne, Switzerland; October 14, 1911. Hans Schmidt, an aviator, was killed today while making an exhibition flight. His machine fell 150 feet, the gasoline exploded, and the aviator was incinerated. The progress in the science of aviation has been costly in human life. With the death of Hans Schmidt at Berne, Switzer-land, yesterday the number of persons killed in aeroplane accidents has reached an even hundred. Beginning with the death of Lieut.
Thomas E. Selfridge, the first person killed in an aeroplane, in 1908, the list of fatalities has rapidly increased, especially in the present year, when the deaths almost double,1 the combined number for the three preceding years. In 1908 one man lost his life, in 1909 four, in 19101 thirty-two, and to date for the present year sixty-three persons have been killed. Aviation's victims include sixteen Americans: Lieut. Selfridge, Eugene Speyer, Ralph Johnstone, Walter Archer, John B. Moisant, William G. Purvis, Lieut. George E. M. Kelly, A. V. Hardie, William R. Badger, St. Croix Johnstone, J. J. Friable, Louis Rosenbaum, Frank H. Miller, Dr. Charles B. Clarke, and Cromwell Dixon. France has contributed more victims to the list than the combined numbers of America, Germany, and Italy, her number totaling :47, including a woman, Mine. Denis Moore, who fell at Etampes on July 21 of the present year. Another woman, the
Baroness de la Roche, had a narrow escape at the Rheims meet in July, 1910, when she fell 160 feet, breit,k-ing her arms and legs. German airmen who lost their lives number 12, Italian 8, English ?, and Russian 5. The others represented in the list were Peigiana, Peruvians, Spaniards# t has be6n pointed out that whereas in the earlier days only the most fitted, mentally and physically, dared flights, nowadays great numbers of amateurs do so. The deaths for the present year include a number of aviation pupils, the most recent being Dr. Charles 13. Clarke, an amateur who had not obtained an aviator's license, but who made a flight in a borrowed monoplane against oiklera at the
Nassau Boulevard, Long Island, aviation meet. Dr. Clarke, whose real name was Charles Clarke Bunting, was once a famous bicycle rider, better known in vaudeville circles for his 4 a Globe of Death " act. lie had helped to construct aeroplanes in the Queen Aeroplane factory and he was anxious to learn to fly. During.'the Nassau meet a Queen aeroplane, equipped with a powerful Gnome motor, a different affair from which Clarke had learned to fly, had been entered by Earle Ovington, and it was in this machine that Dr. Clarke made the flight which cost his life. Double fatalities. in which rider and passenger were killed, were common, seven having occurred, while on June 18 of the present year three Frenchmen, Capt. Prineeta.u, T. Le Martin, and M. Landron, were killed near Paris at the start of the European circuit race, which was won by Lieut. Conneaut (Andre Beaumont.) Capt. Princetau's motor exploded in midair, flooding him with gasoline and burning him to death, and M. Landron met the same fate when the benzine pi the reservoir exploded. M. Le Martin wts killed when his biplane pitched into a tree, the motor of the machine crushing his head. on two occasions aviators had been goaded to ascend by the Jeers of spectators. On Sept. I last, at the Norton County (Kansas) Fair meet, J. J. Frisbie went up in a crippled biplane which had met with an accident the - clay before, driven by the taunts of the crowd. When up about 100 feet the machine tipped while making a turn and came down, crushing him underneath. Under the same cir-cumstances Frank H. Miller, Toledo aviator, was forced to fly at the Mans-field (Ohio) Fair by spectators, who called him a coward. Miller had barely circled the field, 200 feet up, when the gasoline tank exploded, setting fire to the ma-chine. and burning its driver to a crisp. Two other victims were lost while making flights and their bodies have never been recovered. They are Cecil Grace, a nephew of ex-Mayor Grace of New York, and Lieut. Dague, a French aviator. Grace disappeared in a fog over the North Sea on Dec. 22, 1910, while attempting a return flight from Calais to Dover for the
Baron de Forest prize of $20,000. He was never heard of again. His cap, gloves, and what was supposed to have been the wreckage of his aeroplane were picked up a month later in the North sea. off Marla-kerke, Belgium, and later, on March 14, a greatly disfigured body was brought to the surface at Ostend. 18elgium and was thought to resemble the 'lost aviator, The executors of Grace's estate obtained leave from the London Probate Court to pre-sume his death on March 27. Lieut. Bague started from Nice on June 5 for el trip to Corsica, a distance of a little more than 100 miles, but nothing had ever been heard from him again. Torpedo boat destroyers sent out to search could find no trace of him. Bague carried carrier pigeons with him, and it is supposed that the aeroplane capsized so suddenly that he was unable to set them loose. Just three months before his disappearance, on March 5, Lieut. Bague had established a new record for an over-sea flight by flying over the Med-iterranean from Antibedes to the little island of Gorgona, a distance of 124.5 miles. Conflicting currents In the atmosphere which cause upward and downward mo-tions of the air and which have been de-Scribed by experts as " holes in the air," have been responsible for many of the fatalities. It is the downward currents that are particularly dangerous to avia-tors and which cause the airman to make a sudden drop from a great height to within a few feet of the ground or death, Observers on THE TIMES'S special train which followed Glenn Curtiss in his flight from Alhanr, noticed that on several oc-casions he dropped from a height of more then 11.9 feet to wIthin 5 feet of the ground. Wilbur Wright stated that in his flight up the Hudson during the Hudson-Fulton Celebration, there were times when the air seemed to boil and was full of bumps like a rough road. The month just ended has been a, rec-ord-breaking one for aeroplane fatalities, 16. deaths having been recorded for September, two better than the previous record of 14, which occurred in May, 1911.
Here is a list of those killed:
# | Date | Aviator | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
1 | September 17, 1908 | Lieutenant Thomas Etholen Selfridge | Signal Corps U.S.A., killed at Fort Myer, Indiana, while flying with Orville Wright in a Wright biplane. Wright had a narrow escape and was injured. |
Besides the above list, four persons have been killed and dozens injured by aeroplanes getting beyond control of aviators and falling among spectators. On October 18, 1909. M. Blanc, a French aviator, fell among the crowd at
Juvisy, France, mortally wounded a woman and injured a dozen other persons. On August 1, 1910, Mme. Franck, a Parisian airwoman, while flying a biplane at
Sunderland, England, struck a flagpole and the machine was dashed to the ground, killing a boy. Mme. Franck suffered a broken leg. A girl was killed at
Limoges, France, on October 15, 1910, when M. Baillod steered his monoplane into a crowd, besides injuring several other persons. On May 21, 1911, the French Minister of War,
Henri Maurice Berteaux, was killed and three other persons, including Premier
Ernest Monis and his son were injured when aviator
Train lost control of his aeroplane at the start of the Paris to Madrid race. James Kinney, on October 11, 1911, was struck and instantly killed at
Joplin, Missouri, by a biplane built by the
Joplin High School boys and piloted by Harold Robinson.
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Source | New York Times on October 15, 1911 |
Author | AnonymousUnknown author |
Aviation Victims Now Number 100. Berne, Switzerland; October 14, 1911. Hans Schmidt, an aviator, was killed today while making an exhibition flight. His machine fell 150 feet, the gasoline exploded, and the aviator was incinerated. The progress in the science of aviation has been costly in human life. With the death of Hans Schmidt at Berne, Switzer-land, yesterday the number of persons killed in aeroplane accidents has reached an even hundred. Beginning with the death of Lieut.
Thomas E. Selfridge, the first person killed in an aeroplane, in 1908, the list of fatalities has rapidly increased, especially in the present year, when the deaths almost double,1 the combined number for the three preceding years. In 1908 one man lost his life, in 1909 four, in 19101 thirty-two, and to date for the present year sixty-three persons have been killed. Aviation's victims include sixteen Americans: Lieut. Selfridge, Eugene Speyer, Ralph Johnstone, Walter Archer, John B. Moisant, William G. Purvis, Lieut. George E. M. Kelly, A. V. Hardie, William R. Badger, St. Croix Johnstone, J. J. Friable, Louis Rosenbaum, Frank H. Miller, Dr. Charles B. Clarke, and Cromwell Dixon. France has contributed more victims to the list than the combined numbers of America, Germany, and Italy, her number totaling :47, including a woman, Mine. Denis Moore, who fell at Etampes on July 21 of the present year. Another woman, the
Baroness de la Roche, had a narrow escape at the Rheims meet in July, 1910, when she fell 160 feet, breit,k-ing her arms and legs. German airmen who lost their lives number 12, Italian 8, English ?, and Russian 5. The others represented in the list were Peigiana, Peruvians, Spaniards# t has be6n pointed out that whereas in the earlier days only the most fitted, mentally and physically, dared flights, nowadays great numbers of amateurs do so. The deaths for the present year include a number of aviation pupils, the most recent being Dr. Charles 13. Clarke, an amateur who had not obtained an aviator's license, but who made a flight in a borrowed monoplane against oiklera at the
Nassau Boulevard, Long Island, aviation meet. Dr. Clarke, whose real name was Charles Clarke Bunting, was once a famous bicycle rider, better known in vaudeville circles for his 4 a Globe of Death " act. lie had helped to construct aeroplanes in the Queen Aeroplane factory and he was anxious to learn to fly. During.'the Nassau meet a Queen aeroplane, equipped with a powerful Gnome motor, a different affair from which Clarke had learned to fly, had been entered by Earle Ovington, and it was in this machine that Dr. Clarke made the flight which cost his life. Double fatalities. in which rider and passenger were killed, were common, seven having occurred, while on June 18 of the present year three Frenchmen, Capt. Prineeta.u, T. Le Martin, and M. Landron, were killed near Paris at the start of the European circuit race, which was won by Lieut. Conneaut (Andre Beaumont.) Capt. Princetau's motor exploded in midair, flooding him with gasoline and burning him to death, and M. Landron met the same fate when the benzine pi the reservoir exploded. M. Le Martin wts killed when his biplane pitched into a tree, the motor of the machine crushing his head. on two occasions aviators had been goaded to ascend by the Jeers of spectators. On Sept. I last, at the Norton County (Kansas) Fair meet, J. J. Frisbie went up in a crippled biplane which had met with an accident the - clay before, driven by the taunts of the crowd. When up about 100 feet the machine tipped while making a turn and came down, crushing him underneath. Under the same cir-cumstances Frank H. Miller, Toledo aviator, was forced to fly at the Mans-field (Ohio) Fair by spectators, who called him a coward. Miller had barely circled the field, 200 feet up, when the gasoline tank exploded, setting fire to the ma-chine. and burning its driver to a crisp. Two other victims were lost while making flights and their bodies have never been recovered. They are Cecil Grace, a nephew of ex-Mayor Grace of New York, and Lieut. Dague, a French aviator. Grace disappeared in a fog over the North Sea on Dec. 22, 1910, while attempting a return flight from Calais to Dover for the
Baron de Forest prize of $20,000. He was never heard of again. His cap, gloves, and what was supposed to have been the wreckage of his aeroplane were picked up a month later in the North sea. off Marla-kerke, Belgium, and later, on March 14, a greatly disfigured body was brought to the surface at Ostend. 18elgium and was thought to resemble the 'lost aviator, The executors of Grace's estate obtained leave from the London Probate Court to pre-sume his death on March 27. Lieut. Bague started from Nice on June 5 for el trip to Corsica, a distance of a little more than 100 miles, but nothing had ever been heard from him again. Torpedo boat destroyers sent out to search could find no trace of him. Bague carried carrier pigeons with him, and it is supposed that the aeroplane capsized so suddenly that he was unable to set them loose. Just three months before his disappearance, on March 5, Lieut. Bague had established a new record for an over-sea flight by flying over the Med-iterranean from Antibedes to the little island of Gorgona, a distance of 124.5 miles. Conflicting currents In the atmosphere which cause upward and downward mo-tions of the air and which have been de-Scribed by experts as " holes in the air," have been responsible for many of the fatalities. It is the downward currents that are particularly dangerous to avia-tors and which cause the airman to make a sudden drop from a great height to within a few feet of the ground or death, Observers on THE TIMES'S special train which followed Glenn Curtiss in his flight from Alhanr, noticed that on several oc-casions he dropped from a height of more then 11.9 feet to wIthin 5 feet of the ground. Wilbur Wright stated that in his flight up the Hudson during the Hudson-Fulton Celebration, there were times when the air seemed to boil and was full of bumps like a rough road. The month just ended has been a, rec-ord-breaking one for aeroplane fatalities, 16. deaths having been recorded for September, two better than the previous record of 14, which occurred in May, 1911.
Here is a list of those killed:
# | Date | Aviator | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
1 | September 17, 1908 | Lieutenant Thomas Etholen Selfridge | Signal Corps U.S.A., killed at Fort Myer, Indiana, while flying with Orville Wright in a Wright biplane. Wright had a narrow escape and was injured. |
Besides the above list, four persons have been killed and dozens injured by aeroplanes getting beyond control of aviators and falling among spectators. On October 18, 1909. M. Blanc, a French aviator, fell among the crowd at
Juvisy, France, mortally wounded a woman and injured a dozen other persons. On August 1, 1910, Mme. Franck, a Parisian airwoman, while flying a biplane at
Sunderland, England, struck a flagpole and the machine was dashed to the ground, killing a boy. Mme. Franck suffered a broken leg. A girl was killed at
Limoges, France, on October 15, 1910, when M. Baillod steered his monoplane into a crowd, besides injuring several other persons. On May 21, 1911, the French Minister of War,
Henri Maurice Berteaux, was killed and three other persons, including Premier
Ernest Monis and his son were injured when aviator
Train lost control of his aeroplane at the start of the Paris to Madrid race. James Kinney, on October 11, 1911, was struck and instantly killed at
Joplin, Missouri, by a biplane built by the
Joplin High School boys and piloted by Harold Robinson.
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