MAN WHO WON’T BE KILLED

Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 160737, 25 August 1920, Page 3

MAN WHO WON’T BE KILLED

MR HAWKER’S ESCAPE AT BROOKLAN DS. Mr H. G. Hawker, the airman and motorist who has earned the title of “the man who won’t be killed” had a wonderful escape at Brooklands. While he was testing a 400-h.p. motor-car, and travelling at a terrific speed, it dashed off the track, tearing a gap in the corrugated iron fencing the size of a house. The nose of the car was -mashed., but Mr Hawker coolly' alighted, stood beside his damaged car, and invited the photographers to “snap” him. In the afternoon, he won a race at 90-c miles an hour. ME HAWKER’S ADVENTURES. Mr Hawker can now count more fibrilling escapes than almost any other man. Here are some of his adventures; August, 1913. —When ho made his gallant attempt to win the Daily Mail “Round Britain” Flight prize ho met with an accident in alighting off Dublin. October 8, 1913—While flying at Brooklands a sudden gust of wind caused him to crash, and he was taken to hospital. March 8, 1914. —Fell again while fly' ing at Albury, South Wales, escaping without injury. June 27, 1914.—Pe1l into trees at Brooklands from a height of 500 feet while looping the loop. Unhurt; machine smashed. February 27, 1916.—At Brooklands the cowl of his engine blew off in midair. Again unhurt; machine damaged. May lb, 1919.—Mr Hawker’s famous rescue, with Lieut.-Coin. MackenzieGrieve, from tho Atlantic, while male ing tho flight for the Daily, Mail c61C,000 prize. From the moment the machine passed over the coastline no news was heard till seven (fays later, when a Danish steamer reported their rescue. Another wonderful escape at Brook lands was that of Captain C. L. E. Geach, when at a speed of probdblv more than 100 miles an hour his car overturned and threw him out. Ho was practically unhurt.