Friday, September 25, 2009
Bournemouth 12th July 1910
Charles Rolls made his last flight at the Bournemouth International Aviation Meeting which was to take place between 10 and 16th July at the aerodrome. He flew a French-built Wright plane with a modified tailplane, which broke off, causing the plane to dive vertically from a height of about 80 feet. Rolls was thrown out and not trapped in the wreckage. He was found still alive but with obvious serious injuries to his head and upper body. Two doctors arrived almost immediately by he died within minutes.
Flight magazine wrote.
..poor Charles Rolls breathed his last as he lay there on the green grass by the debris of his machine, surrounded by a cordon of saddened friends.
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