morning, met his death by the overturning
of his machine at an altitude of 300 meters.
Death was instantaneous, and the machine was
completely destroyed."

The machines used by the two men were of the
same manufacture, as Pequod used a stock machine
which was strongly braced to support the
inverted weight, but otherwise it was not unlike
the well known type of monoplane.

Beachy has since repeated the experiment with
a bi-plane, and it is a feat which has many imitators,
and while those remarkable exhibitions
are going on, one catastrophe follows the other
with the same regularity as in the past.

Let us consider this phase of flying. Are they
of any value, and wherein do they teach anything
that may be utilized,

LACK OF IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINES.--It is remarkable
that not one single forward step has
been taken to improve the type of flying machines
for the past five years. They possess the same
shape, their stabilizing qualities and mechanism
for assuring stability are still the same.

MEN EXPEDITED, AND NOT THE MACHINE.--The
fact is, that during this period the man has been