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Went to 2,000 Feet.

The altitude instrument on the aeroplane registered 2,000 feet and it was from about that height that the aviator started the loop which ended in his death. The clock had stopped at 7:07 o'clock when the plane struck the ground.
 
Captain Worden has been flying at Vickery Station for some weeks. Yesterday afternoon he went up for his last flight at about 5:30 o'clock. He was an experienced aviator, but only recently has he been trying trick flying. He expressed a determination, before ascending, to complete several perfect loops. He flew for some time tuning up his engine and at about 6:30 o'clock started upward to get the proper altitude before trying the loops.
 
Falls During Loop.

The flyer mounted rapidly, and at about 7:05 o'clock reached 2,000 feet. He headed his machine earthward, swung it up into a graceful curve and over on its back. The machine never reached a level keel again. Whether the aviator intended making an up-side-down flight or whether his rear elevator failed to work can never be known, but from the summit of the loop his machine headed earthward. Falling at a terrific speed the monoplane never swerved in its course downward. The aviator could be seen feverishly working with his controls as the plane neared the earth, but to no avail.
 
Hundreds of persons who had gathered to watch the daring aviator at his work rushed to the wrecked machine. The body was found bruised and mashed directly under the plane. There was no sign of life remaining. The body was brought to the ctiy in the ambulance of George Loudermilk.
 
Captain Worden was the only aviator who successfully fulfilled his contract at the Corn Show in February, 1914. He made many friends at that time for his daring in going up under the worst of conditions. He has been considered a master of flying ever since he entered the game in 1911. He was a student of aviation and was known as a careful but enthusiastic flyer.
 

Tribute to Aviator.

Frank McCarroll of Dallas, well versed in flying circles and himself the owner of a machine, said last night that with the exception of Art Smith and Lincoln Beachey, Captain Worden was the best aviator who has ever performed in Dallas. Mr. McCarroll said he was one of the leaders in American flying.
 
The machine in which Captain Worden met his death was made entirely in Dallas. The engine was installed here under his personal supervision. After it was assembled he had it moved to Vickery Station, where he has been practicing ever since. Once he received a nasty fall when the wheels of the plane caught on a fence and turned the monoplane over. On another occasion the machine fell some distance, but the aviator was unhurt. His machine had only recently been thoroughly overhauled after the last accident. 
  Captain Worden was born Feb. 6, 1885, at Asbury Park, N. J. He is survived by his wife, who is in Dallas. The body will be sent to New Jersey today for burial. He was a member of the Masonic fraternity and of other organizations.
 
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KNOWN IN GALVESTON.
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Special to The News.

Galveston, Texas, May 6. - J. Hector Worden, aviator, was listed among the pioneer airmen of America, having been a professional flyer for about six years. Of Indian descent and well educated, Worden, while still a youngster, went in for dare-devil stunts, and while performing the bicycle gap jump for a carnival company was injured so badly that a permanent deformity of the spine resulted, precluding any further pursuit which required physical agility. 
  In 1911 he went to France, where he entered the aviation school of Bleriot [[?and]] was a personal pupil of the great French flyer. Having mastered the [[?]] monoplane, he returned to America and in 1912 was employed by the 
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AVIATOR KILLED BY FALL NEAR DALLAS
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Southern School of Aviation, located at Galveston. He flew his monoplane in and around Galveston for about six months, after which the school was discontinued, and he went to Chicago.

The following year he was employed by the Bleriot monoplane distributors in America and sent to El Paso with a string of machines purchased by Huerta in his campaign against Carranza forces.  Worden served as a military aviator for nearly a year, ranking as a Captain in the Mexican Army, legally commissioned.  He had many brilliant experiences and narrowly missed death or injury on several occasions.

During the latter months of 1914 Worden entered the exhibition flying field, in which he was largely engaged up to the time of his death.  He was a careful pilot and was reckoned as one of the most experienced monoplane flyers in this country.
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