LUCKY BIRD!
AIRMAN CHEATS DEATH. A SECOND TIME, TOO. LONDON, July I. Falling backward from an uneontrolable upside-down, spinning aeroplane in the vicinity of Brookland?, Captain Pchnfield owes liis life to tlie paracliute, by mean? of ■which he dropped 400 feet, and landed unharmed, while the machine crashed. Captain Schofield had a wonderful escape last week, when half his propeller became detached, and broke off of tlie engine, and he planed down ll.OnO feet.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 159, 7 July 1926, Page 7
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