WONDERFUL FEAT
AUSTRALIAN PILOT LANDS TWO PLANES JAMMED TOGETHER IN COLLISION EVENT WITHOUT PRECEDENT. IN HISTORY OF AVIATION. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 1.0 p.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. A Royal Australian Air Force pilot made a successful landing near Cowra with his plane jammed on top of another R.A.A.F. machine. Air Force officers cannot recall such a feat in the history of aviation. The machines had collided in 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, bailed 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 a landing.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 September 1940, Page 6
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125WONDERFUL FEAT Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 September 1940, Page 6
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