AN AVIATOR'S CRASH
RECORD SPEED EFFORT. BROKEN SKULL AND LEG. LONDON, June 13. The famous speed aviator, Mr Larry Carter, crashed while testing the Air Ministry's secret Napicr-Glostcr aeroplane, in ■which he had hoped to approach a speed of 300 miles an hour, which would have beaten the world’s record. After ten miimtee’ flight, the machine swooped into the aerodrome from a hf.ght of 20ft. The tail control refused to function. The machine was wrecked. Mr Carter sustained a fractured skull and ? broken log.
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Evening Star, Issue 18979, 29 June 1925, Page 4
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84AN AVIATOR'S CRASH Evening Star, Issue 18979, 29 June 1925, Page 4
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