14-bus leap
;NZPA-Reuter Londoni j An English stuntman, (Eddie Kidd, has set a record! | for a motor-cycle leap by! ’soaring over 14 double-deck-’ I er buses. The 18-year-old daredevil; ;!beat the record of 13 buses! .(cleared by the American. l .-Eve! Knievel, in 1976. ;l Kidd made the leap — a !;distance of more than 45, (metres — in front of 19,000’
I people at a disused airfield (on London’s outskirts. The (spectacular event was shown (live on television. Kidd tried to do a 13-bus ! leap on his motor-cycle two i years ago, but was knocked unconscious on landing iwhen his machine hit stew(ards. Critics said he had (touched the 11th bus. After his successful jump lon Saturday he was mobbed iby fans. Asked how he felt, 'he replied: “Fantastic.”
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Press, 10 April 1978, Page 8
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