SURPRISING FEAT.
PLANES LOCKED TOGETHER
LANDING FROM MID-AIR
(Rec. 1 p.m.) SYDNEY, Sept.,3o. A Royal Australian Air Force pilot made a successful landing near Cowra with his plane jarnbed on top of another R.A.A.F. machine. Air Force officers cannot recall such a feat in the history of aviation. The machines collided ill mid-air a thousand feet up and became locked firmly together. The pilot and observer of the bottom machine and the observer of the top machine baled out and descended safely by parachute. The pilot who eventually landed the two ’planes still locked together jumped from the cockpit of the top machine after gliding to his landing.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 259, 30 September 1940, Page 8
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108SURPRISING FEAT. Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 259, 30 September 1940, Page 8
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