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stop flight from Brooklands to Eden's . eye
and came to grief, at -the little. Yorkshires - -"
village b!%MarAk(r-b>4b^e^^bôV^i^>r'^
miles from senders -k, s <',/' - *. /'<>, 4
Mr. Petra asce^iided.frtai'tne aerodromes; We'
Weybridge/on a'jMartinJaandaiidesmo'hO-.. a
plane. at WH-saTi* 6t*xUAl*t¿9M>&mM\to?fí ^
weather, cpiidifeouav were favorable and i V
be made ä^ent"rii*bgres8, that the" day''
wore on and the aviator progressed further
occurred, is a pitHUi-earrae'lrEUe'', seaside range
sort midway between Saltburn and TSedVty,,
car. Soon after noon an aeroplane, was key
lighted flying at a.g*r^t¿*>peéa.aád" every
dently not entirely "Under control:'?; "Sud-"- for
denly a ft»«e1íiilist^of,iwil)tí%aT|rpeared story I
catch the- end' of the Imachine'«rj/ Others r
aeroplane dived down/to.sartti.ilike a boy's'",;
kite which had lost it-i\eqi]álibtf am. per- s? s 'i
tetors rn8hed^toj,the?!^iV,o*»T»)b**-,to. '-passing
,,. cases of edaeroplaiiéí^.^a,<.'íí'f
a dead bodyguards _.,_,_
There was no^di^cnltjt-;» identifying
the unfortunate aviators Oartife^bôdy* was
found his,pifot's'certificate bearing the
name of Edward Petre, of Brooklands. The,
aviator's neck was broken, and, in addi-
tion the ldt'arm**jmafractured,.and there were
other injuries. The aeroplane was
utterly wreclirf/'and 3t'"«rai,sotriê^,thnei'/-'
before the 'Senator's body, could be ex- ,
treated and conveyed to theatres'. Hos-
pital Mortuary: J Beath must,. have" been j"
instantaneous. < ,-, -<~* .- - .
'Eye-witnesses of the disaster state" that
Mr. Perry made a desperate' struggle in a '
mid-air for his life. 'Again and again, they .
state," he' glided, and circled 'amid theatres up
against a terrific gate^b&ljrto»be driven
at express speed, the wind being to powers
fair ?'? ?" *-" ~*--'*- *~~
wards
again _ 2, Ta
appeared to be almost; certainly, the ' machine,
being but a few, feet from soft pasturage,
but a gust took him upwards once,
more. His fight for life prior to the last ,
fatal dive is described as superb. _ '
t Mr. Petre was only twenty-six. Although ,
he obtained his pilot's certificate at ,,
Messrs Handley Page's grounds at Fair-
top, in Efescx, as recently as July 24 of last
year, he had then already been a skilled -
pilot for a considerable time, which
was brought clearly into evidence by this fact
that four days later, on July 28, he "
flew the Handley-Page monoplane' from
Faklop right through London, following the
course of the Thames, to Brooklands, "
This flight in itself was not only a remark- table
one, but it constituted the first ever." made
across the whole breadth of' Lon-
don's performance which will never be "
repeated owing to the Royal Aero Club's
prohibition of nights over towns.
It was within a week of Bleriot's; flight
across the Channel that Edward Petre and
his, brother Henry resolved to devote
themselves to the new science of aviation. '
He promptly signalised his, originality, in
designing and building a monoplane of a '
wholly new type, with the propeller placed
in the rear. Since then this arrangement ,
has been adopted by several leading French
contractors.
*t.TbTPetPB I«oaoPkne was exhibited' at
the Olympia Aero Show in March 1940,
and was thence transferred to Brooklands,
where, however, it failed to leave the
ground. It a still preserved in one of the -,
sheds. . /
At the inquest on deceased Mr. George
Harris- underside, engineer at Brook-
lands, said the machine used by Mr. Petrie
had a normal] power of eighty miles an
hour. Mr. Petre was a big, powerful man,
and one of the most fearless aviators e- for the
country.
A TO diet <*^AiwdeBtal deathless as- , _
carried.
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