REFLECTOR: FW: Inflight Repair - INCREDIBLE !

[Alex Balic]

Hat's off to this girl!!

 

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Subject: Inflight Repair - INCREDIBLE !
Date: Wednesday, January 19, 2011, 1:15 PM

 

 


  


  
  
  
  


Absolutely amazing!  Not even wearing a parachute. 

Note she doesn't even climb into the back seat for landing.   

Guess there were no rules in those days, eh? 

Fabulous footage although pretty grainy due to time and bad equipment in
those days compared to today, but geez, what nerve this gal 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 a 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 video, Ingles transfers herself from the rescue plane to the plane
missing a 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. 


 
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