Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 February 1914 — BEACHEY SETS NEW RECORD [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

BEACHEY SETS NEW RECORD

Loops the Loop Five Consecutive Times and Outdoes Originator of Thrilling Feat.

San Francisco.-Lincoln Beachey, aviator, celebrated Christmas by breaking a : world’s record, “looping the loop” five consecutive times from a height of 750 feet and landing in a narrow

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street on the Panama-Pacific exposition grounds. Beachey turned a double loop at a height of 300 feet, which he says fs a record in itself, as Pegoud, the originator of this particular freak of aviation always has performed from a great height

Lincoln Beachey.