[CCI] New York Herald 27 June 1912

[Nick Forder]

NEWSPAPER ARTICLE PUBLISHED IN JUNE 1912 
NEW YORK HERALD 


DISAPPEARS IN CHANNEL FLIGHT 
James Valentine, British Aviator, Flying Toward France, Is Suddenly Lost to View. 
[SPECIAL DESPATCH TO THE HERALD VIA COMMERCIAL CABLE COMPANY'S SYSTEM.] 
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London, Thursday.] 
James Valentine left Dover last evening in a Bristol monoplane for Dieppe, by way of Calais. News of his arrival at the latter place has not been received up to an early hour this morning at Dover. A friend, who had been watching the flight, says he saw the machine dip suddenly and it was lost to sight. 
Had Engaged in Many Races in England and on the Continent. 
James Valentine has been a prominent figure in many racing contests in England during the last year. He is a pilot of the Aero Club of the United Kingdom, having received a license January 17, 1911. 
He was then using a Macfie biplane, but learned the use of the monoplane in time to fly a Deperdussian in the European circuit, in which he represented England with credit, last July. He was described in that contest as a cool and courageous. He entered also for the English circuit race last summer in the Deperdussin. 
In the aerial Derby of eighty-one miles around London on June 3 last, Valentine was third in a fifty-horse-power Bristol monoplane. 
At the Whitalm meeting, Hendon, May 14, Valentine won a handicap cross-country event and a speed handicap. 

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