AIR EXPERIMENT
A VERY CLOSE SHAVE. .• ' I (United Press Association—By Electric 'ieleg. u-pii—Copyright). (Received this day at 10.30. a.m.) VANCOUVER, July 8. At Atlanta, four fliers had a hairbreadth escape at a thousand feet altitude. Two pilots went aloft each in two planes for the purpose of demonstrating that landing gcaj- could, be changed in the air. Bonnie Rowe climbed out of the cockpit of Number One plane and hanging by his feet from the wing, pull off a wheel and tossed it back into the cockpit. He then signalled to Number Two plane to lower him another wheel. 'Phings went splendidly till a gust of wind caught tho roping, carrying it into the propellor of JNumoer One plane, smashing the blades and dragging the planes together. One pilot cut the rope with a pocket knife and the planes veered apart, and the propellorless piano carefully glided into a cotton field, but while they descended Rowe climbed into the cockpit, retrieved the wheel and in the last hundred feet above the ground, fastened it in position. His companion glided to a perfect landing. Friends in Number Two plane were still aloft, anxiously watching them.
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Hokitika Guardian, 10 July 1929, Page 5
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194AIR EXPERIMENT Hokitika Guardian, 10 July 1929, Page 5
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