DARING FEAT IN MID-AIR.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 235, 15 December 1916, Page 2 (Supplement)

DARING FEAT IN MID-AIR.

BULGARIAN'S BAULKED OF THEIR PREY. The following account of the sensational landing of a French bombarding aeroplane containing two aviators is published by the " Echo de Paris,"' of September 25. from n sub-lieutenant fighting in the Doiran district. A piece of bursting shrapnel liaving severed one of the control wires of the aeroplanefi he says, the machine began to dive hear-foremost and was apparently lost. It was falling within the enemy's lines, to the great delight of the Bulgarians, who gave vent to their joy by loud shouting. When within a hundred yards of the ground, the observer managed to leave hi' seat and succeeded in hoisting himself on to the oppcr plane of the machine. where, lying on the canvas, he was able to restore the balance of the machine by moving the plane by hand The motor controls were undamaged, and as soo/i as the equilibrium of the aeroplane was restored it was able to return to the Allied lines and land without further mishap, with n bomb still 011 board. The Bulgars were so dumbfounded by his daring conduct that it did not ocur to them to open fire, which probably would have brought down tiie two heroes.