Low wings did not raise the curious Tremaine monoplane high enough. Trying to clear a cliff, it bumped into it. The fusilage split and the plane fell amid a flaming mass of sparks. When saviors came they found Flyers George W. D. Covell and Richard S. Waggener, Navy lieutenants, cremated.
Captain Arthur V. Rogers, British destroyer of 32 German planes, jumped. He felt the canvas mechanism of his parachute start functioning.* He hit the ground, was picked up dead. Captain Rogers was testing the Angel of Los...
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