PILOT'S ESCAPE
AEROPLANE BREAKS UP HIGH SPEED AND ALTITUDE PARACHUTES TO GROUND (Received October 4, 9.15 p.m.).,' NEW YORK, Oct. 3 When the aeroplane Time Plies broke up at a height of 7000 feet, at East Hartford, Connecticut, Earl Ortman, test pilot, was miraculously saved. The wings and tail of the machine were ripped off when it was flying at 350 miles an hour in a power dive. Ortman was struck on the head and thrown out semi-conscious. Instinctively he pulled the rip-cord and* parachuted safely to the ground. ■ ■ .'> The aeroplane was built by Capthin Frank Hawks and was designed to make a speed of 400 miles an hour.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23160, 5 October 1938, Page 16
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