Ferris, Richard. [from old catalog] · New York, T. Nelson and sons · leaf 397
ng distressing, and often disastrous, leaps fromhigh places with the family umbrella for a parachute. In 1904 he worked with Mr. Israel Ludlow, whoat that time w^as experimenting with gliders of hisown construction, and when Mr. Ludlow began tow-ing them behind automobiles, Hamilton rode on… … Hamilton and Latham. his spectacular glides from a great height. He hassaid that the first of these was unintentional, but hismotor having stopped suddenly while he was highin the air, he had only the other alternative of fall- BIOGRAPHIES OF PROMINENT AERONAUTS. 397 ing vertically. The sensation…
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