BRAVERY PERSONIFIED

[Gil Boyd]

GeeRam,
Still thought she was brave..............how many blokes do you know would do that, I know my local tyre fitters are all over 20 stone....not them?

....................and it begs the question, if it was staged, who took the first wheel off, or are you saying it was taken off by her with a spanner and socket set??

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[GeeRam]

No one would do that today......not even a pro stunt-person (not without wearing a 'chute at any rate)

She clearly had zero fear and was very confident of what she was doing, and as I said, she lived to a ripe old age.

Yes, it was staged, and filmed over multiple attempts as well, given a cameraman magically appears in the rear seat of the wheel-less aircraft to film her, and then disappears for the shots from the other aircraft. There was a discussion on this clip back in the late 90's on one of the US based 'warbird' forums that is now long defunct, and one guy had a lot of info on the old 20's & 30' Barnstormer acts, and he posted info of the Black Cats routines etc. Its a long time ago now, so I don't recall exactly how they took off with a wheel missing, I think it was on some sort of cradle mounted on a flat bed from memory.....long time ago though so can't recall exact details.