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...times the wingless body turned over in space, then?Crash! Witnesses ran to the wreck, fearful of what they were about to see. A mechanic opened a steel casket in the pile of debris and out stepped M. Sauvant with the smiling grace of a circus acrobat. Later the inventor told-the-world...
Near the edge of a precipice on the outskirts of Escragnolles in the French Riviera one day last week Albert Sauvant, 28, climbed into the cockpit of an ancient Farman biplane named Amour. The ''plane'' had neither wings nor motor.* Police had confiscated them to prevent Inventor Sauvant from doing what he proposed to do?deliberately crash, with himself in the plane, to demonstrate a shock-absorbing device which he said would save his life. Mechanics took hold of Amour (so named by Inventor Sauvant "because the experiment had become so dear to my heart''), pushed it across the field...
Previously M. Sauvant had compared the construction of his pilot seat to the position of a hen's egg contained within an ostrich egg. If the ostrich egg were dropped and smashed, he said, the hen's egg would remain intact. He once dropped a sheep and six eggs safely from 500 feet in a model of his ship (TIME, Dec. 14). Several times he tried to make the test himself but could not elude police until last week. Before undertaking his cliff dive he let a motor truck ram Amour with himself inside...
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