SAVED BY PARACHUTE
PILOT’S FORTUNATE ESCAPE
LONDON, Feb. 28
An Air Force pilot owes liis life willy-nilly to the parachute which is now portion of a pilot’s standard equipment. Flight-Lieutenant Pope was testing a new secret and extremely fast lighting machine at the Yale Aerodrome when he felt a sudden tailflutter at LjPO feet. The tail then broke adrift and the machine became uncontrollable turning upside down. Tile pilot released the safety belt and fell out. Pope had not before made, a parachute jump but pulled the release ring in the in the meanetime being only 1000 feet from the earth. He landed with perfect' safety hut the machine crashed upside down.
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Hokitika Guardian, 4 March 1929, Page 2
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112SAVED BY PARACHUTE Hokitika Guardian, 4 March 1929, Page 2
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