AVIATION

Hokitika Guardian, 29 April 1930, Page 5

AVIATION

WOMAN PARACHUTIST.

SIX MILES IN 14 MINUTES

(Australian Press Association)

(Received this day at 9.40 a.m.) NEW YORK, April 28

After ,an aeroplane climb at Roosevelt Field of an hour and a half, Trances Rees, the thirty-six year old parachutist, 1 hurled herself from the plane at the altitude of fourteen thousand eight hundred feet. She opened one of the two parachutes, attached to her flying suit, making a safe landing six miles distant in fourteen minutes.

AIRMAN’S HORRIBLE; DEATH

GERMAN ACROBAT’S FATE

BERLIN, April 28

• The German acrobatic airman Hundertmark. fvas horribly killed before thousands at Dusseldorf when attempting to climb a rope ladder from a flying plane to another. Hundertmark caught in the end of the ladder attached, to. tile ..machine above, but ,he was,.unable, to , raise his feet to the rung. The second pilot fruitlessly tried : to pull him up as a landing meant death, and thus,, for threequarters of an hour horrified spectators watched Hundertmark dangling in mid air. Firemen held a, sheet and the machine circled frequently, but the acrobat had e ther - become entangled or had lokt his nerve and was unable to drop. Finally the pilot steeled his heart and landed. Hundertmark was dragged along the ground, and when picked up he wa£ terribly injured and died shortly after.