Deliberately “blimping the gun” to simulate engine trouble, Gerry prepares for an emergency landing. But her simulation of the trouble chokes up the engine and the plane takes fire. Hastily, she takes to her parachute, landing with painful but not fatal injuries. The crowd is against at the accident.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 August 1939, Page 2
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49Deliberately “blimping the gun” to simulate engine trouble, Gerry prepares for an emergency landing. But her simulation of the trouble chokes up the engine and the plane takes fire. Hastily, she takes to her parachute, landing with painful but not fatal injuries. The crowd is against at the accident. Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 August 1939, Page 2
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