INVENTOR PUSHED OVER A CLIFF
ADVENTURE IN " CRASH-PROOF " AEROPLANE M. Albert Sauvant, the inventor of what he claims is a crash-proof aeroplane, on August 13 continued his series of personal demonstrations of the machine by being hurled over an 80ft cliff at Nice. He was badly shaken, and it was at first thought that he had broken an arm, but medical examination showed that he had suffered nothing more serious than severe bruis'"jhe experiment closely resembled that carried out in March, when M. Sauvant made a vertical drop of (Oft and emerged unscathed. Tins time some friends obligingly pushed the machine with him in it over the cliff. After the crash M. Sauvant s friends peered over the ledge, and waited condeutly for his triumphant emergence from the wreckage. When it became evident that he was in trouble several men descended by ropes to his rescue. With much difficulty they managed to drag him clear. Later when he had recovered, M. Sauvant declared that he was delighted with the success of his experiment since ho would certainly have boon killed in any ordinary machine.—'‘ The Times.’
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Evening Star, Issue 21216, 24 September 1932, Page 20
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