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THE CHICAGO RECORD-HERALD, WEDNESDAY MAY 29, 1912
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[[title]]Wreck of Paul Studensky's Bleriot Monoplane After Sixty Foot Plunge With Aviator at Cicero Field[[/title]]
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[[title]]AVIATOR TAKES PLUNGE OF 60 FEET IN GALE[[/title]]
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Paul Studensky Drops in Bleriot Monoplane in Test at Cicero Field.
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ESCAPES WITH BROKEN RIB
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Accident Similar to That Which Cost Life of Dan Kraemer Last July. 
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  Lurking somewhere in the vicinity of Cicero Field, the flying inclosure of the Aero Club of Illinois, is a wide-awake "Jinx" which has made its life work to hound Paul Studensky, the diminutive aviator. Accident No. 8 in the last few days happened to Studensky yesterday when he wheeled out a Bleriot monoplane, the property of the National Aeroplane Company, for a trial flight. 

  Against the advice of other aviators, Studensky cranked up and started across the field in the teeth of a puffy gale. He rose without much difficulty and when at a height of about sixty feet attempted to make a short turn to the right. Immediately his machine ended up and plunged downward, striking the earth with a terrific impact, which wrecked it and threw Studensky violently from his seat.

PICKED UP UNCONSCIOUS.

  When spectators reached the spot, Studensky was unconscious. He recovered in a short time and was apparently not badly injured, but at the hospital to which he was removed, it was found one rib was broken. 

  Studensky's fall and the causes underlying it were similar to those which cost the life of Dan Kraemer, July 13 last. While making a turn to the right, the gyroscopic force exerted by the swiftly revolving Gnome rotary motor and the propeller blade, combined with the pressure of the gale under the banked wing, tipped the machine and sent it headlong to the earth. Luckily the heavy motor was in front of Studensky instead of behind him, as was the case with Kraemer, otherwise he would have been crushed to death.
 
USES OVINGTON'S MACHINE

  The Bleriot machine which Studensky used is the one which Earle Ovington piloted to numerous victories in races last year during the aviation meet at Grant Park. It was later sold to the National Aeroplane Company which had it quartered at Cicero Field.
 
  In spite of the accident, Lloyd Thompson, candidate for an aviator's license, completed two-thirds of the tests necessary for obtaining a pilot's license from the Aero Club of America. He ascended 308 feet in the altitude test, completed five "figure eights," half of the necessary number, and landed within a required distance from a designated spot. A storm cut short the remainder of the flying trials.