AVIATION
PLANE IN A FOG
ATIIMAN USES PARACHUTE
[United Press Association—By Electrio Telegraph.—Copyright.]
SAN DIEGO, Nov. 28
Gerald Nettletoii, aged twenty, trying to establish a new trans-Conti-nental record for a junior, ran into a fog and was hopelessly lost. He stepped off bis monoplane at ten thousand feet altitude and floated gently to earth in a parachute. The plane crivhed a mile from where be safely landed. Nettletoii said the weather was so soupy with rain and fog, that 1 could not see ten feet. Then the instruments froze. There was nothing left but to jump. 180 I levelled the machine, cut off the switch, closed the throttle and rolled out of the doors. I fell for several minutes. I did not see the earth till it was 200 feet away. That is how bad the weather was. MRS MILLER’S FLIGHT. HAVANA, Nov. 28.
Mistress Millar took off lor Miami in* Florida this morning. Conditions were poor.
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Hokitika Guardian, 29 November 1930, Page 5
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