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GENERAL NEWS
By D. E. Ball

towns on Saturdays and Sundays, and is reported to have engagements in the East for the entire summer season.
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AVIATOR P. STUDENSKY, OF THE NATIONAL AEROPLANE COMPANY, FLYING THE BEECH NATIONAL BIPLANE, 52 FEET SPREAD, AT GALVESTON BEACH.
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AEROPLANE AND BALLOON
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Pilots of Air Busy Over Galveston Island--Three Aeroplane Flights and a Parachute Jump.
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Friday was a busy day for aviators in Galveston and during both the morning and the afternoon residents along the beach were treated to exhibitions of spectacular and daring serial stunts, in which the flyers of the National Aeroplane Company and "Little Frank," balloonist and parachute jumper took part. The novel spectacle of a balloon and an aeroplane in the sky at the same time was presented when "Little Frank" and Aviator Paul Studensky both appeared shortly before 2 o'clock, the one in a big balloon and the other in a biplane.

"Little Frank" rose from the yard of Hotel Galves at 2:50 o'clock and shooting heavenward. reached and altitude of more than 500 feet, with his craft drifting to the northward, propelled by a gentle south wind. When almost over twenty-sixth street at Avenue Q however, he rose into a current which swept his balloon back to the south, and he was forced to drop in  his parachute or be swept out to sea. He alighted safely on Avenue Q.between Twenty-ninth and Thirtieth street, close to the baseball park, and his balloon drifted nearly a quarter of a mile out into the gulf before it came to rest on the surface of the waves. It floated in later and was recovered. "Little Frank" made the ascension for the purpose of making bird's-eye photographs of the city and succeeded in getting two pictures before he was forced to descend.

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Aviator Paul Studensky made three flights in the Beech-Farman biplane Friday. Two flights were made in the morning from the beach. Studensky going up first alone, and later with A. C. Beech, designer and builder of the machine, as a passenger. The passengeer carrying flight lasted for nearly thirty minutes, the two birdmen reaching an altitude of more than 2,500 feet, and covering a distance of about twenty miles. Studensky went up alone in the afternoon, for an endurance flight, and remained aloft for about thirty minutes. The weather conditions were ideal and the flights were the most perfect which have yet been made in the big biplane.
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In the clouds
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