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...Short Brothers' Rochester (England) plant, is known as the Composite Aircraft. Simple in theory, it consists of a small, fast mail plane with high wind loading, mounted rigidly atop a huge flying boat. Unable to leave the ground by itself fully loaded, the sleek little mail plane will perch atop the "mother ship" for the takeoff. With eight engines (four apiece) wide open, the Composite Aircraft will be able to rise easily as a single unit. Securely locked together, the two planes will climb to some 5,000 ft. There, when sufficient speed is attained, they will separate...
...Toronto, Ontario, small Frank Williams toppled from his perch atop a ski-jump under repair, began an Soft, fall with a scream. Perched on a plank 15 ft. below, big Herman Bautzman heard the scream, stretched an arm, yanked small Frank Williams from the air and death...
Warned by the heavy smoke which quickly seeped throughout the building several men rushed to the top floor with extinguishers and soon had the flames under control. They then turned their attention to the unfortunate student who was forthwith extricated from his perch...
Dumb, quivering agony for the horse? dumb, quivering frustration for the lion. Such is the price of the circus act in which a lion leaps from its perch to a horse's back, rides around the ring. A lion dearly loves warm horseflesh and of all living creatures a horse most fears a lion...
...Jamaica fortnight ago, Psychic Bid, of Mrs. Isabel Dodge Sloane's Brookmeade Stable, went wide. Swart little Jockey Dominick Bellizzi tugged desperately at his 2-year-old's left rein. The bit slipped through Psychic Bid's angry mouth. Jockey Bellizzi went flying from his perch, hurtled into the dust. Hoofs struck and crushed his crumpled body and when the field thundered off Jockey Bellizzi lay in his dirty royal-blue-&-white silks, unconscious...