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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 7, 1954

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A new se

C

HARLES

LIND

BERGH fess 1 Adaut

nione, from New York

Paris,

May. 1907. This evin bad al ready been down, but im bergh's achievement caught the imagination of whole world because it the first single-handed, non- stop direct crossing

the

WILS

ac.

It was typical of his deep modesty that during all the Press interviews asıl clamations that followed he did not mention the that he had already become a member of the Caterpillar

Club four times over.

Jart

1 Bean that he had ቲ * ፖ ነ four pecasions saved his life by baling out of a doomed aircraft in a parachute.

Lindbergh originally learned to fly with a joy-ride pilot WIKI eventually he scraped together enough to buy his own machine. With his slightly lopsided grin he once almitted to me that he Was still learning to fly while carrying trusting passengers for hire.

of true r

ALE

-

Then the two entangled machines beefed over and roured down in controlled spin. In spite of bring half-dazed, Lind bergn knocked off his safely belt and struggled out of his

Wan

This wasn't easy be seat. ratise his right wing, which hach buckledd buck. dapping and left him barely coom to get out. He saw Me Allister jump clear, then Lindbergh himself was somersaulting down the sky. and purposely delaying the mell on his release ring until the forked machines had swung well away from his path.

Fortunately, both men landed afely, but gun it is typical of La fough this is jepurt he was much less veruplexi with

Dalte

a good weather and without ja- eldent. Evening was failing he took off again, bul he was soon on a compass courte, for thick fog rulfed beneath ut depth-as he found when he tried to get beneath it-of more than 900 feel.

a

Lindbergh dropped Za are when he reckoned he was near the town of Muywood, but the fare did not Ignite. Then a du}) slow through the fog indicated the presence of the town, but it was still suicidal to attempt a landing.

For some time he flow around

for hoping

of Lake sight

J

Bow

Michigan or the Illinois River, but the toy blanketed cvery- thing. Meanwhile he realised that

time had been slipping by

his tul www dangerously

low

At last be opened the throttle, elrabed well away from the town glow. and let the machine give him as much height as it could until

LINDBERGH Leaps for Life

By

GERALD

BOWMAN

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slower than the others. In details of the crash and his sur- the engine Anally run dry and In 1924 WO first adet the elims after the dive he vival than the fact that on the cut at 5,000 feet, Lindbergh of the

United was

therefore, making a and a vest-pocket sunera which his belt and went out over the way down he had lost his goggies He quickly knocked undone States Army Air Service slightly larger are with the were highly treasured

starboard side, falling a clear going through advanced result that he suddenly sk training Est Kelly Field, realised that Lindbergh was Texas. One sunny morning coming up directly under- he was flying in a formation neath him. with no idea

of nine S.E.5 single-seater that he was there biplanes led by his commian-

der. Lieutenant Blackburn. Their exercise that day was

Less then three months later Lindbergh won his second Cater- pillar He was testing new aircraft and after starting a spin found he could not get back to a level keel.

pillar

Lindbergh grabbed his para- cureer of any successful airman. chute lines wid spilled alr Lindy certainly had his share of frantically from the canopy. The it. But from first to last his navement swung him out of the magnificent career has shown path of the approuching machine him to be one of the linest pilots bitt It increased his rate of fall and navigators the world ham

and for a few horrible moments ever known and the last muu

he thought he had overdone it to whom the charge of foolish- and collapsed the canopy alto ness could be pússíbly applied. gether.

Once again the machine droned past as it completed & circle. Then he went down into the clammy grey blindness of the fog and could see no more than a fool or so up the parachute lines. Twice more he heard the machine without being able to see it.

Then he thudded on inthe | unseen ground and and over, blindly

out WAY

of the

100 feet before pulling his shroud of silk.

release ring.

ILH

کی

rolled over clawing his enveloping

astonished

and

Helped by farmer, he got n lift in on He was soon swinging gently ancient Ford-and a mile or 60

he descended towards the

spread over the earth in the maching mixed up with a hay vast white coverlet of fog which away found the twisted

erumpled wreckage of the darkners below. Then he had stack.

Fortunately I had not an unpleasant surprise. From caught fire and the mail was somewhere close by he heard an intact — à fact that seemed to He fought with the controls engine start.

Then In the give the conscientious young McAllister fiercely swung for 2,000 feet before he finally moonlight he saw his abandoned pilot more satisfaction than did

Lo avoid knocking jumped. His parachute opened aircraft appear from above in his own survival. Lindbergh's head to pieces when the was at itss than 300 with his propeller. but he feet. could not avold collision.

to practise diving attacks upon a light of De Havil land 48 aircraft led by away Lieutenant Morgan at 5,000 fect.

gliding turn and make straight at him.

Three weeks later, again through fog and lack of fucl

to tako to his The attack was made, as Lindbergh's starboard top For two years after that the

Only then did he realise that Lindbergh had the aircraft had levelled out parachute for the fourth time, usual, in sections of three, wing crashed through Mc. gemting" which had dogged

after he had left it and that the but on this occasion his landing Lindbergh was on the left Allister's port bottom wing. joined the Missouri National Lindbergh left him alone. He

tank of his section with a Lieut. Shattered wood and spars Guard and also became an air- last drains of petrol to rith into earned him the nicknames which

had consequently was uneventful. bltered angle, too, allowing These four escapes, however,

bu McAllister to his right and flew us the propeller sliced mail plot on the St. Louis-

the exrburetter feed. The hot Cndet Love leading.

At into it. With a jarring shock Chicago run. Then, in the spaces engine had resturied itself-and rang round the world after ho

of three weeks, he found himself Love's signal the section both aircraft

and had flown the Atlantic and locked carlig two more Caterpillars, now he was hanging helplessly, which he always detested. His dived, made their attack on together and Lindbergh both in, very much the same cir-

watching the rapid approach of brother pilots called him "The the 4Bs and then chmbed, was flung forward, banging cumstances.

machine which could easily Flying Fool" and "Lucky Lindy." McAllister's

thresh him to pieces with its machine, his head heavily against the

propeller if it contlined running Luck, indeed, is a matter! however, had been slightly front of the cockpit,

for only a few more minutes. which must play a part in the

ΤΟ

TARD on the Indo-China

Hcease-fire, the Vietminh

Communists have launched

STAY

On the first occasion he had covered the run as far as Peoria

OR

NOT

Smith

By Sydney

TO STAY?

Leader of the French - anțI-

a drive to persuade Vietnam Nevertheless, there will be a in perfect condition except for and French technicians, fot of deliberation during the 80 a few pieces of vital machinery. ovacuation group in Hang

days' evacuation limit-by both

The

Communists

who

sent

has begun.- among, the Vigt names-with French associo- tions-who are tarifed Communist reprisals.

fot

Among them are unmarried merchants and business men French and Vietnamese.

M. Henri Jean, the biggest mothers from__ the

garrison French, A garage owner of the city. His areas. The to remain in North Indo-

with have China.

arrived by Philosophy, like that of many of ympathetic gallantry. Businessmen are arguing: "The patiator, Viets have said they need us, jungle paths on a bicycle, offer the colonists, is strictly resiste, given thers the same priority

evacuation tu Franch citi Of the 100,000 civilians They have prownleed we shall ing forms for the return of the Says ho expected to do so, a score of be able to carry on. Why not let machinery,

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Many others are hesitat ing but barikada and

Negotiator

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