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[[name of newspaper is not complete "Chicago Evening..."]]
[[title]]THREE KILLED IN AVIATION TESTS[[/title]]
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Bremen, June 2 - Albert Buchstaetter, a widely known German aviator, and his passenger, Lieutenant Stille of the German navy, were dashed to death from a height of 200 feet when their aeroplane fell in the presence of several thousand persons. 
As they were turning the monoplane tipped, fell and struck the ground with such impact that it was imbedded several feet and had to be sawed to pieces before the bodies could be released. Both were mangled almost beyond recognition. 

[[bold]]One Killed; One Hurt In Fall.[[/bold]]
Paris, June 3 - Aviator Colardeau was seriously hurt and a passenger named Roby killed when their aeroplane fell 500 feet at the Juvisy aviation field. 
At the final aerial matinee Sunday under the auspices of the Aero Club of Illinois at Cicero, Aviators DeLloyd Thompson, a pupil of Max Lillie, and Otton Brodie, qualified for their international pilot licenses. With consummate skill both executed the five difficult figure eights required by the rules, the former in a Wright biplane and the latter in a Farman. 
Paul Studensky, while carrying mail to Elmhurst and Wheaton Golf Clubs on the regular mail service established during the meet, broke the field altitude record in his big Beech-National biplane ascending 3,610 feet. 
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[[title]]FLYERS CARRY 42 PASSENGERS[[/title]]
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[[subtitle]]Aviators Take Many Aloft at Conclusion of the Cicero Meet.[[/subtitle]]
Two international aviation pilot licenses were obtained, forty-two passengers were carried for flights and the field altitude record was broken at the concluding day of the opening meet at the Cicero flying field of the Aero Club of Illinois yesterday. 
DeLloyd Thompson, pupil of Max Lillie, was the first pilot to finish his tests, using a Wright biplane. Then Otto W. Brodie, a Chicago boy, went through the difficult flights, winning two distinctions. He is the first person to obtain a license under the figure eight rules in a Farman biplane in America, and is the only American to make three full flights, with three separate measured landings, for a license. Both license flights were made under the observation of Grover F. Sexton, representing Col. Frank X. Mudd, Chicago member of the Aero Club of America contest committee. 
Four of the forty-two passengers were women. Charles Dickinson, a wealthy seed man, who was a passenger, announced a creed of spending the cost of a machine in buying rides, instead of maintaining a hanger and its appurtenances. He has taken more than 100 flights with a score of aviators. Another passenger, at the Elmhurst golf grounds, where Aviator Lillie took Mr. Dickinson, was T. Edward Wilder, first vice-president of the Aero Club of Illinois. 
Paul Studensky, a Russian aviator, of the National Aeroplane company, made a new field record of 3,610 feet altitude. 
In spite of being compelled to give Brodie a handicap alowance of 105 seconds, George Mestach, a French aviator, drove his Borel monoplane around the pylons for a five mile race and beat Brodie by twenty-nine seconds. Mestach's time was 4 minutes 34 seconds, a rate of sixty-five and one-half miles an hour, or faster than that made at the international meet a year ago.
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[[title]]TEACHING PUPILS AT CICERO FIELD[[/title]]
Cicero, June 9 - The opening meet started the ball rolling at Cicero. During the past week there has been a good-sized crowd of spectators at the field every day and the "matinees," which are held on Saturday and Sunday afternoons are proving worthy rivals of the summer gardens of Chicago. 

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[[caption]]CICERO FIELD HANGARS FROM LILLIE'S AEORPLANE.[[/caption]]
The Lillie school machine has been the most active aeroplane on the ground the past week. It was in the air a total of 20 hours for the seven days. There are 16 pupils training and Lillie was compelled to call in help, so he appointed his first pupil, DeLloyd Thompson, as assistant instructor. Thompson is considered one of the best pilots at Cicero.
Passenger carrying at Cicero has grown into quite a business. Lillie has been carrying on an average of five passengers a day. Studensky and Mestach are also getting a goodly share of this business. One of the passengers, Charles Dickinson, a millionaire seed man of Chicago, is attracting a good deal of attention. 

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