A young English airman is formulating a plan to demonstrate that a human being can travel through the air at a speed of •» 00 miles an it our. Ttie young man, who is a prominent member of n Sussex Hying club, contemplates building a machine which would "take off" from a railway track, and on rising in the air would tie free of ttie uiuicr-carriagc encumbrances which must handicap any machine designed to land either on earth or water. The experiment would have tittle practical value, for live daring pilot’s idea is to fly over a marked course at maximum speed, then climb to an altitude of 3000 feet, and, abandoning his machine, return to earth by parachute.
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Waikato Times, Volume 110, Issue 18392, 28 July 1931, Page 8
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