Somersaulting 50 feet through the air from a giant crossbow, a Calif ornian daredevil recently introduced a new circus act. Billed as a human arrow, he takes his place in a small metal cradle and braces himself for the shock of starting. At a given signal, an assistant trips a trigger and the acrobat is hurled into the air and lands in a net 50 feet away. The cradle is driveu by a coil-spring mechanism said to exert a driving force of more than 20,0001 b.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22053, 8 September 1933, Page 10
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