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Show An Odd .Collision. "One would imagine it to be safe, in preparing a list of improbabilities, to include such a thing as a collision between be-tween an airplane and a steam roller," says the Popular Mechanics Magazine. "A rear-end crash of two so utterly different dif-ferent machines seems extremely incongruous. in-congruous. And yet this is precisely what occurred not long ago at an aviation avi-ation field near Buffalo, N. Y. The steam roller was being used on the turf when an airman attempted to make a landing. In doing this he either micalculated the relative positions of his craft and the heavy roller, or became be-came 'object struck,' for the nose of the plane was plunged with considerable consider-able force against the rear of the oilier machine. Fortunately no one was badly bad-ly iniured, but the propeller of the aircraft air-craft was broken, the landing gear wrenched, and the radiator smashed." |