AEROPLANE FEAT
LANDS ON TOP OF MOUNTAIN.
jJUniteol Press Asjociation.—Copyright.) LONDON, 23rd December. IVitliiu fifty feet of the edge of a prui'ipicc, with a drop of 700 ' feet, Mr.'- Leeciing (chairman of the Lancashire Aero -Club) and Mr. Bert B'incAVJer, flying an Avro aeroplane,landed on top of Helyellyn, 3118 feet high, whence they made a succe«fnl homentwd flight. Mr. Looming sail that th v- air pockots were the worst he had ova- known. .They once droppel 000 feetj, like a stone. Mr. Hinckler was liftijiil. into the air clear of hit seat, and »'■ cushion flew overboard. Bmt for their «i*fety belt* they would bot* .hwre. becin Ijblown o*t qtf the bmUm
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 152, 24 December 1926, Page 7
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111AEROPLANE FEAT Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 152, 24 December 1926, Page 7
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