Kelley (Texas)
New member
Amazing Nerve & Courage! Fabulous footage although
grainy due to time and bad equipment...
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 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.
http://www.oshkosh365.org/ok365_DiscussionBoardTopic.aspx?id=1235&boardid=147&forumid=180&topicid=5584
grainy due to time and bad equipment...
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 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.
http://www.oshkosh365.org/ok365_DiscussionBoardTopic.aspx?id=1235&boardid=147&forumid=180&topicid=5584
