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HOUSTON CHR
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HOUSTON, TEXAS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 191?
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[[title]]STUDENSKY HAS NARROW ESCAPE[[/title]]
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ENGINE IN BIPLANE DIES WHILE AVIATOR IS AT ALTITUDE OF 2000 FEET.
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VOLPLANES DOWN
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Making Right Hand Spiral He Descends Safely Without Breaking Any Part of Machine - Phone Officials Make Change. 
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[[italics]]Special to The Chronicle[[//italics]]
Galveston, Texas, Feb 29. - At one time reaching a height of more than 4000 feet, Paul Studensky, the French flyer of the National Aeroplane Company, late Wednesday evening circled over the city in his American made biplane. Studensky was in the air about 40 minutes and covered a distance of 25 miles. Leaving aviation grounds, he took the beach line as a guide, followed the beach down to the eastern end of the island and there wheeling out over the bay at an altitude of 2000 feet he flew westward to the end of the city, where he turned again south and headed for the national aviation grounds. When he was directly over the roofs of the houses in the western part of the city his supply of gasoline became exhausted and the motor ceased to throb. The daring aviator coolly pushed the head of his lifeless biplane downward, voloplaning at a terrific rate of speed from more than 2000 feet in the air in a right hand spiral, onoe of the most difficult feats in aviation, he swept earthward and landed in a vacant lot near Forty-second street and Avenue I without so much as breaking a wire of the machine. 
Studensky's flight marks a feat which has seldom ben performed in aviation and will be noted the world over. He had always confined his flights to a Bleriot monoplane, the controls of which are different from those of a biplane. He will continue his flights over Galveston and expects to make some new records. 

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