AEROPLANE WRECKS
PILOT'S WONDERFUL FEAT.
(Received 25th September, ,12.50 p.m.) LONDON, 24th.September. America's misfortunes extended to the Schneider Trophy aeroplane race at Cowes, where a 700 h.p. Wright" naval seaplane crashed. Tho machine had a reputed speed of 180 miles an hour, and was favourite for Friday's race. Tho tale of disaster ended with a remarkable accident to a London-Paris mail machine, carrying seven passengers mid tho pilot. The aeroplane ran into a gale off Abbeville blowing at 60 miles an hour, which tore off half the rudder and rendered the aeroplane uncontrollable. It started spinning, but by a masterly effort the .pilot corrected the balance of the falling machine by stopping the port engine, starting the starboard, then reversing the action. Finally, he effected a' remarkable landing without accident.
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 74, 25 September 1923, Page 7
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