UPSIDE DOWN WITH PEGOUD.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1975, 4 February 1914, Page 4

UPSIDE DOWN WITH PEGOUD.

■V ""< H- , i SENSATIONS. .OF A LOOPING PASSENGER. , ■ A photographer"on the staff of -tho , Paris "Matin" gives, a grauhie rjiss.cription of his' EeiiSatigj-vs when taken lip.by M.' Pegoiid,.the original upsidedown .airman, to iako.photographs when looping, the .loop in mid-air!.' "My first', thrill," ha s'ayki "was 1000 feet up, when M. Pegoud banked steeply on one wing. It was. nothing to what was to' fdlow. -~1. clasped nty camera to iny broast',s'l'co'uld not'tafe ihy eyes.'off it.' It'll'let it go I knew I should ba disl'iQ : nßuj-«i for ever, t lookcd'at M.PeMtjdj too'., "I feel that lies is sofinieh at homo that, ma foi, I slip a plats in my camera. By his preparations I realise. that he- is going to Hoop .the loop. Pouf 1 There I am head downwards. It is all (Ibno so quickly th.-it t do not even perceive it. I feel ray feet dangling in the air while my leathern straps cut deeply into my shoulders. 1 come back to tho normal position without quite knowing what has happened. "M. Pegoud turns and says: 'Now, then, ready for your photograph ?' \\'<i start again. This time I braoo my feet in the' framework. For tho second time we plunge earthwards, and in a very large circle we loop tho loop for the second time. I had time, head downwards, to release the shutter twice. I had.plenty of time to see the ground bpneath us. Tho trees looked as though they were drunk."