AIRMAN SLIPS FROM 'PLANE.
While flying an aeroplane at i 2000 feet at Hanible, Hants, a. young pilot had the terrible experience of falling by accident out of his machine. He pulled the ripcord of the paiaehute, and landed Safely two miles away. Tfib pilot was Air. K. T.ififrray, whose home is in Costa Kica. lis "said after the kreident, tljat he had been; in,: the air i'6r about" 20'"minutes, and was practising acrobatics; "I felt .myself slipping out of the cotkpit after a slow roll. Before f eoud do anything I had fallen right! out. I pulled the ripcord of the panreimte and made a perfect landing. As I came down I looked for my machine, but it had gone out of sight. I took off the harness of the 'chute and got a lift to the spot where the 'plane had dived to the ground. I tried to find as a souvenir a piece of the propellor, put it was buried in the ground, and pieces of the machine were all over the field."
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume III, Issue 198, 10 November 1934, Page 5
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