GREAT ITALIAN AIR EXPERT KILLED.
PARACHUTE FAILED TO OPEN, LETTING - AVIATOR CRASH. (United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) LONDON, April 28. Advices from Rome state that in an attempt to make a parachute descent from his own aeroplane General Gu:doni jumped and crashed to the ground. He was killed instantly. The parachute was strapped to his back and did not open. It was stated later that the cords strangled him before he could open the apparatus. General* Guidoni’s death is described as an irreparable loss to Italian aviation. In the war-time he was the Italian ace supreme, and since 1911, both as an inventor and a builder of aero planes, his sway was unchallenged. Almost all new types of aeroplanes built in Italy have been the outcome of his fertile brain and mechanical skill. lie attended aeronautical conferences in England. France and the United States. —Australian Press Association.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18451, 30 April 1928, Page 10
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