FIT FOR THE FILM.

Taihape Daily Times, 14 June 1919, Page 5

FIT FOR THE FILM.

A dispatch rider ’s -‘elm-lug leap :’r;ml a motor cycle into the fuselage hi’ :1 runaway ael'op-I-3ri=,, goi'.i;., at‘ (50 miles an hour, :I\'el't;nl by a few f:-ett an appalling disaster ‘-at :1.-VPaeifie. coast flying; field (says it San Francisco cor--1'CSp‘C]1(l0I1l)». The motor cyclist ‘was cleaning his machine near the lizuigurs wlieu the 'p§llotleSs‘ nel'oplnn'e ‘zaislidd bi’. It was headed straiglit. for a compauy of soldiers drilling with their backs towards the onrushing muchiuv-‘-. The motorist jumped into his Sadtlli‘. and throwin_<_: on the lust ounce of er.el'gy, succeeded in swiugiilg in l)(‘hind the plunging, bounding :101‘Opl:1I1(?. and leaped for EL hold. The despemte elianee wou. He drew himself up into the fuselage and bl'ou,q‘llt the I'una\\':l_V plane to a. stop not fit't_v feet from the h:l(.'l«t.< of the <lrllliu§,; men. llll‘Ollf.§ll whose ranks it would have torn to its own destruction be_\_'oll(l. The missing pilot of the dereli'e.t aeroplane was f('i11l(l on the field, with his head ol'usll— evidently by 3. blozv from the propeller ng he stwtecl the engine.