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    Default Daring Woman saves a Plane.

    Have people seen this before? I found this on https://hmnzsotago.org/scran-bag/

    "Without a Parachute

    Midair repair…by a woman 1924

    Hard to believe that stunts such as these used to be accomplished frequently. Does anyone recall the air-to-air re-fuelling of one biplane to another using a long hose? Those people had to be either fearless or just plain crazy!

    This woman has more guts than a sausage factory. 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 had. 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 landing gear 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
    propeller. It’s certainly a feat many mechanics wouldn’t even try on the ground with the engine running.

    She died at age 82."


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    That is impressive! Don't make 'em like they used to, that's for sure.
    Happy that's true for plane landing wheels, but not so much for 'folk'...

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    Really great clip David.
    They sure had "guts" those woman wing walkers.

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    Amazing. Totally fearless. Thats something you don't get to practice until you get it right. Hopefully there are no films of the ones that weren't successful!

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    If memory serves: The wheel loss was staged; this was a "standard" part of the stunt show's routine. "Kayfabe" kept the audience from figuring out it was all part of the show.

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    I did wonder about whether it had been staged because the cine cameras 'just happened' to be on hand and I know that barnstormers sometimes deliberately crashed planes to entertain the public much to the dismay of the fledgling airline companies, who were trying to convince the public that flying was safe.

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    Amazing.

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