HOW HEALTH & SAFETY LAWS HAVE CHANGED OVER NEARLY 100 YEARS
> This woman has more guts than a sausage factory. Fabulous footage, although grainy due to time and poor equipment
> in those days compared to today, but what nerve she had. > > Gladys Ingles was a member of a barnstorming troupe called the 13 Black Cats in the 1920s. 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 tire. She then expertly works herself down to the undercarriage only a few feet from a 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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Thanks Richard
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