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PILOT'S LONG DROP
AEROPLANE BREAKS UP
(Received October 5, 10 a.m.)
NEW YORK, October 4,
When the plane Time, Flies broke up at 7000 feet near East Hartford, Connecticut, today, the test pilot,. Earl Ortman, was miraculously saved. The wings and tail were ripped off in a 350-mile-an-hour power dive. Ortman was struck on the head and thrown out semi-conscious. He instinctively pulled the ripcord and parachuted to safety.
The aeroplane, which was built by the. late Captain Frank Hawks, was designed to do 400 miles an hour.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 83, 5 October 1938, Page 14
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