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[john sutton]

Amazing Old Aviation Video ...... this is one incredible woman.









Without a parachute mid-air repair...by a woman in 1924.






Take a look at this film. Fabulous footage, although grainy due to time and bad equipment in those days compared to today.





Gladys Ingles was a member of a barnstorming troupe called the 13 Black Cats in the 1920s. She 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 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 tyre.





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.






Mid-Air Airplane Repair (1924)

[Captain Kong]

Try doing that on a 747
Cheers
Brian

[happy daze john in oz]

Try doing that on a 747
Cheers
Brian

No Brian, the old aircraft had outside toilets, and a seat on the wing meant just that..