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CHAMPAGNE VINTAGE

... internal injuries, while Lieutenant Selfridge was injured about the head. Both have been removed to Fortmeyer Hospital. The machine is wreck. Lieutenant Selfridge is member of the Signal Corps and son of Admiral Selfridge. The broken propeller new one, which ...

Published: Friday 18 September 1908
Newspaper: London Evening Standard
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1027 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

WRIGHT AEROPLANES

... public for the first time. Orville Wright ia oonlideat that his aeroplane would not have been injured, and that Lieutenant Selfridge would have been saved, if ho had only fallen far enough. In other words, he believes that with 20ft more of falling space ...

THE AEROPLANE DISASTER. CAUSE OF THE ACCIDENT. (mom ova 001131151PO1qDICHT. )

... certainly recover from injuries, there I little to lighten the gloom which yesterday's accident has wet Washington. Lieutenant Selfridge, Mr. Wright's companion, clied lest night within three hours of the disaster. skull leas so badly fractured that be never ...

Published: Monday 21 September 1908
Newspaper: Evening Mail
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 760 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

PARIS, Sept. 22

... twenty, and am sure if Orville had been a greater altitude would have righted the aeroplane and we should not bo lamenting Selfridge's death. It Is stated that seven aeroplanes similar to Mr. Wilbur Wright's have been built in America, five of which are ...

Published: Wednesday 23 September 1908
Newspaper: Morning Post
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 312 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

MR. W. WRIGHT'S RECORD. AFRONAUT SAYS HE COULD HAVE EXTENDED HIS TRIP TO 3 HOURS. €rom Our Own Correspondent

... been at a | greater altitude he would have had time to right it during the drop, and we should not now be deploring Lieut. Selfridge’s death. Mr. Wright has reconsidered his deba' mination to take no one on board during the trials. He will accept as passengers ...

Published: Wednesday 23 September 1908
Newspaper: Morning Leader
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 410 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

GERMANY AND PEACE. IMPERIAL AND FOREIGN. Dr. SV•11 Media's DiscoverteL

... reported in a British ship at Viborg. Aerial Navixatioe. Mr. Orville Wright was seriously injured, and his companion, Lieut. Selfridge, killed, in an accident during an aeroplane flight at Fort Myer.—Mr. Edison has =preened some interesting views on aerial ...

Published: Friday 18 September 1908
Newspaper: Evening Mail
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 368 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

LE MANS TRIALS SUSPENDED. (120 X OUR oosacaroxnEvr.)

... especially affected by the thought that the machine built by his brother and himself has caused the death of Lieutenant Selfridge. He is not likely to fly again before Monday. M. Ernest Archdeacon, president of the i tz committee of the Club, expreeees ...

Published: Monday 21 September 1908
Newspaper: Evening Mail
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 388 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

A DISAPPOINTMENT AT LI HANS

... believe that with constant care be will be able to leave the hospital in sis weeks* time. The news of the death of Lieutenant Selfridge, following the fracture of the baae of the skull, baa not been told to Mr. Wright present. The latter told the doctors this ...

Published: Saturday 19 September 1908
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 453 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

THE PHOTOGRAPHER AS NEWSMAN: SEEN BY THE CAMERA

... OF MR. WILBUR WRIGHT. Mr. Orville Wright, one of the famous Brothers Wright, was in the air on his aeroplane, with Lieut. Selfridge, of the American army, as a passenger, when the right propeller snapped, and the machine fell 75 feet to the ground. The ...

Published: Wednesday 23 September 1908
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 352 | Page: 3 | Tags: Photographs 

THE ARMY AND NAVY GAZETTE

... balance. The propellers themselves were newly put on and had never been used before in the flight. Mr. Wright, with Lieut. Selfridge, of the United States army, as a passenger, bad already encircled the parade ground of Fort Myer, Washington, several times ...

Published: Saturday 19 September 1908
Newspaper: Army and Navy Gazette
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1155 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

Catalamphe Caused By Bteakieg of a Ptogoellee: ''''''

... • and he chose Lieutermat . Selfridge, who was with the artillery. bat was no spacial - duty with • laallona corps. lie Mee to as* Aerial Experiment. Amaciatiorkaad an vert aeronaut. He waa-a woe of Meer-Ad• mural Selfridge. l' H.S.. retired. When the ...

Published: Sunday 20 September 1908
Newspaper: Weekly Dispatch (London)
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1177 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

Important Project

... prospect of returns for their money.'' Will Attract Thousamis of Visitor.. Similar views were. expressed — K: Mr. H. Gordon Selfridge, whose only doubt was the business one—whether American manufacturers would find a sufficiently large market here to make ...

Published: Saturday 05 September 1908
Newspaper: American Register
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 517 | Page: 1 | Tags: none