Airmails Tragic Fate
LONDON, July 21
When the tail of his bomber was sliced off by the propeller of another machine, near Wittering Royal Air Force station, Sergeant-Pilot J. A. Bullard pushed his schoolboy passenger into space. He shouted: “Don’t get scared. Count five and pull the ripcord.” The boy’s parachute opened. and floated him safely to the ground. Sergeant Bullard then tried to use his own parachute, but was unable to climb out of the wildly-spinning ’plane until it was too near the ground. He was killed instantly.
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Northern Advocate, 24 July 1939, Page 5
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