AMAZING AIR STUNT
DIVE OF -l.noon. An amazing dive at 100 miles an hour to what seemed certain death was one of the final thrills of the air race meeting at Lyinpne. Captain Frank Courtney, one of Britain’s most_ daring pilots, was giving an exhibition of stunt flying, and had just completed a series of loops when he was seen suddenly to nose dive to earth from, a height of 4,o<)Uft. A" gasp went up from the large crowd in ihe enclosure as the machine, with the engine, still running at full speed, disappeared behind the trees at the fatside of the aerodrome. Ambulance men, dub officials, and the club surgeon hurried to the scone, for it seemed impossible that the airman could have escaped. But a moment afterwards there was the roar of an aero-engine, and Captain Courtney shot up over the hangars and dived and rolled above the heads of the astonished crowd.
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Evening Star, Issue 19063, 5 October 1925, Page 8
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155AMAZING AIR STUNT Evening Star, Issue 19063, 5 October 1925, Page 8
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