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Washington Post
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Description: Biplane Smashed Page 12

Date: April 8 1912

Newspaper published in: Washington, D. C.

Washington Post April 8, 1912 Biplane Smashed Page 12

REX SMITH BIPLANE SMASHED.
Strikes Soft Spot in a Field and Is Wrecked, Aviator Richter Escaping.
The new Rex Smith biplane, which was built last fall and was to have been used in exhibition work this summer, was nearly demolished at College Park late Saturday afternoon, when Joseph RICHTER, who had taken the machine out for a short flight landed in a soft spot of ground on the army aviation field.
The wheels of the aeroplane sank into the mud, throwing the machine violently forward and crushing the right wing as though it had been an eggshell. The propeller was split, both skids broken, and the rudder crushed into splinters.
The only part of the craft that escaped injury was the left wing. RICHTER was thrown out of his seat, but was not hurt. It will require several weeks to rebuild the machine.

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