AERONAUTICS: Saved By Tree

Descamps, one of France's most brilliant airmen, owes his life to a tree and his own presence of mind. Gliding near Paris, he lost control and plunged into a ravine headon. Then it was that he managed to lodge his craft squarely in the branches of a huge elm.

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