05-01-2013, 01:16 AM
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Mid air wheel replaced 1920's
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBedn...are_video_userI'm hoping this works if not apologies but it's brilliant.
05-01-2013, 05:19 AM
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Re: Mid air wheel replaced 1920's
Originally Posted by hazel
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBedn...are_video_userI'm hoping this works if not apologies but it's brilliant.
05-01-2013, 02:39 PM
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Re: Mid air wheel replaced 1920's
Originally Posted by Brandykins
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Brilliant clip - was it a stunt? Whatever it was, it was good!Many thanks for sharing
[QUOTE]see below should have put this on with it...................
Service with a smile....
Take a look at this film. Fabulous footage, although grainy due to time
and bad equipment in those days compared to today, but what nerve. This gal,
Gladys Ingles, was a member of a barnstorming troupe called the 13 Black
Cats in the 1920's. Ingles was a wing walker; in this film, she shows her
fearlessness in classic barnstorming fashion to save an airplane that has
lost one of its main wheels. Ingles is shown with a replacement wheel being
strapped to her back and then off she goes as "Up She Goes," a duet from the
era, provides the soundtrack. In the film, Ingles transfers herself from the
rescue plane to the one missing the main landing gear wheel/tire. She then
expertly works herself down to the undercarriage only a few feet from the
spinning prop. It's certainly a feat many mechanics wouldn't even try on the
ground with the engine running. She died at 82.
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