“THE GAUGES GRINNED”
BRITISH AIRMEN’S ORDEAL CARR’S RACKING FLIGHT Reed. 8 a.m. LONDON, Wednesday. The first connected narrative of Flight-Lieutenants Carr and Giliman’s descent into the Persian Gulf mailed to a friend in London discloses that sleeplessness and strain began to tell on them. To quote their own words: “The instruments and gauges began to grin and make faces at us. The parachute got adrift and sections of it protruded from the water like shark’s fins.” This was a grim suggestion of the actual fate they escaped by abandoning their iatention to swim ashore.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 73, 17 June 1927, Page 13
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