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Adolphe Pegoud, Famous Originator of “Loop the Loop” Thriller, Among Day's Victims. Paris. Aug. 3L—Adolphe Pegoud, the famous “Loop the Loop” aviator, was filled today. Daredevil Pagoud, so-called because of his many hair-raising exploits in all Planes, was the man of whom a member ‘of the French general staff said recently: ‘“ite value to the French army ‘is the requivalent of a whole army corps.” Long before the war Pogoud was aec claimed the premier aviator of the world. ‘He was the first man flyer to execute the famous “Loop the Loop.” But he was not satisfied with this achievement, and almost weekly startled the world’ with new feats of daring and cool-brain ed skill An example of Pegoui's complete mastery of the monoplane was ¢iven” during an exhibition fight at Brook [ene eee er Teae when he amused gross-throngs of British spec tatora by Aying, not only upside down and widewise, but dived 200 feet in the seconds, fnishing his performance with 4 double loop the loop. When the wag started Pegoud wan in Hamburg. Awaiting the arrival of three new machines with which he intended to jproceed to America to” give exhibition right He immediately offered his serv itees to France and soon became @ terror | [to Germans on and behind the fighting | line, File audacity and his whitt leaned like the title, “The Falcon of the Taube,”
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The Washington Herald
Washington, Washington-DC, US
Wed, Sep 01, 1915
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