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\nTravel back to an intrepid age of aviation with this early newsreel, as famous pilot H.J.D. Astley makes an ill-starred attempt to take off from the North Wales coast at Pwllheli. Astley takes it all in good spirit; the son of a...\nTravel back to an intrepid age of aviation with this early newsreel, as famous pilot H.J.D. Astley makes an ill-starred attempt to take off from the North Wales coast at Pwllheli. Astley takes it all in good spirit; the son of a millionaire, he had been a racing driver before taking up flying. The woman in the film is likely to be his wife Mary Kinder, an American actress. Astley was no stranger to close shaves, and would survive another near miss on a flight from France to England, but his luck ran out. During a show in Belfast on 22 September 1912, the 30,000-strong crowd saw his monoplane plummet 100 feet to the ground, where he died of head injuries. (Simon McCallum) Teithiwch yn ôl i oes o hedfan di-ofn gyda'r ffilm newyddion gynnar hon, wrth i'r peilot enwog, H.J.D. Astley, wneud ymdrech anffodus i godi oddi ar arfordir gogledd-orllewin Cymru ym Mhwllheli. Mae Astley'n trin y cyfan yn ysgafn. Yn fab i filiwnydd, roedd wedi bod yn yrrwr ceir rasio cyn dechrau hedfan. Mwy na thebyg mai'r ferch yn y ffilm yw ei wraig, Mary Kinder, a oedd yn actores Americanaidd. Nid oedd dianc o drwch blewyn yn anghyfarwydd i Astley; maes o law byddai'n byw trwy fethiant agos arall wrth hedfan o Ffrainc i Loegr, ond daeth ei lwc i ben yn fuan. Yn ystod sioe yn Belfast ar 22 Medi 1912, gwelodd y dorf o 30,000 ei fonoplan yn plymio 100 troedfedd i'r ddaear, lle bu farw o anafiadau i'w ben. (Simon McCallum) All titles on the BFI Films channel are preserved in the vast collections of the BFI National Archive. To find out more about the Archive visit\n
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