A DOUBLE-CASED AEROPLANE.
SAFETY IN CRASHING. EXPERIMENTS WITH EGGS. a'NITtU PRtSS ASSOCIATION—BY BLBCTBIO TKLEGXI^H —COPYRIGHT.) (Received December 7th, 7 p.m.) LONDON, December 7. A young French aviator, M. Sauvant, of Nice, has invented a doubte-eased aeroplane, which he intends to ignite and crash to earth, accompanied by a mechanic from a height of 3000 feet in the Alpes Maritimes. M. Sauvant declares that the occupants can escape uninjured from an inner case when the fire has been extinguished. He made satisfactory experiments with a miniature machine in which he placed a lamb. He also dropped an ostrich egg containing a ben's egg 375 feet, and . the latter was not broken.
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Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20414, 8 December 1931, Page 9
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