TREACHEROUS WIND
Within two minutes of being flickcd oil the Derbyshire mountain, Mam Tor. in his glider on a rcccnt Saturday afternoon, Mr. J. C. Dent lay in the valley 500 Coot below with the machine beside him a mass of wreckage. From the splintered fuselage, Mr. Dent crawled comparatively unhurt. His tiny sail machine, instead of rising into the sky on a fast current of wind, had been caught in a furious down draught which had hurled him earthwards.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 128, 1 June 1936, Page 11
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80TREACHEROUS WIND Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 128, 1 June 1936, Page 11
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