Life Risked to Prove Theory!

Series

Series Name

Pathe Gazette

Issue

Issue No.

1435

Super Issue No.

27/76

Date Released

22 Sep 1927

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1St Matthew’s Dry Service
2. 2Vienna to Oxford - By Canoe!
3. 3The Birth of a Battleship
4. 4The Doughboys Return
5. 5Life Risked to Prove Theory!
6. 6Good-Bye Summer!
7. 7Beloved BP
8. *Miners’ Annual Demonstration at Houghton-Le-Spring
9. *Mcintosh-Fitzmaurice Atlantic Flight from Ireland

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Story

Story No. within this Issue

5 / 7

Summary

Inventor of "aerial lifeboat" leaps from a blimp 2,000 ft up, with boat to be gas-inflated on way down. The experiment fails - and now the useless device has to be cast away. A wet but safe landing. "I shall try again!"

Keywords

Aviation

Locations

United States of America

Footage sources

Pathe News America

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