8 June 1914

The Bendigo (Vic.) public witnessed an aviation performance on 8 June 1914 by M. Maurice Guillaux, the French airman. He said subsequently that there was scarcely any wind until he reached an altitude of 3,000 ft., and this enabled him to perform with ease such daring feats in his Bleriot monoplane as looping the loop, flying upside down, and making his sensational perpendicular dive towards the earth.