WONDERFUL SKI-ING.
LONDON, Feb. 4. A wonderful spectacle was witnessed at lan Moritiz lake, where Lord Northosk Ind Prince Odesculchi, on skis, attached ticmsclves to an aeroplane and swirled (round tho lake holding on to a wooden lur fixed to tho aeroplane by a rope. The t ;i-ers woro often jerked off their feet into tlO air but they held on grimly until, t-a veiling at forty miles an hour, they t ius circled the lake five times when they 3 gnalled they had had enough. Tho a viator showed great skill in keeping tho Machine low at a fairlv regular level. Fokker, who watched the feat, now proT, oses to t:iko a liob-sleigh party in similar t ishion. —A. and N.Z. cable.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 57, 6 February 1925, Page 9
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