CRASH TO DEATH
'AMERICAN RACING PILOT i .
CLEVELAND, September 2. The crews of 100 planes assembled for the national air races saw Lee Miles, aged 37, American champion racing pilot in 1934, crash to death when trying out a plane he intended to pilot in the races. When travelling at 270 miles an hour the plane shed its wing and plunged into a clump of trees. Miles was catapulted from the cockpit, and his clothes .were' stripped from his, body.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 57, 4 September 1937, Page 8
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80CRASH TO DEATH Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 57, 4 September 1937, Page 8
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