'i Aeroplane pilots and their parachutes s are hurled thirty feet clear of a falling t 'plane by a new German compressed-ail t gun. The device ie intended to eave th< y danger that when a pilot jumps to sav< t himself he may foul the parachute oi I, the 'plane. Now he ehnply pulle t e hand-trigger, and is ehot free. Th< e inspiration for this safety gun ( ie sai< e to have been obtained from a pneumati* o cannon used in a stage act that hurlex il prformere from eight to a hundred fee in the air. . ......
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 289, 6 December 1928, Page 8
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