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Show MIMIC AIR FIGHT RESULTS FATALLY : TS(ftr - ., "- - 't '4kf . -- . - i ',H$$& , ' ''??'" , r, ?' i , - v 't-TK Unusual photograph or falling aeroplane in which Frank Stltes waB killed at Universal City, Cal. At tho tlmo of the accident Stites was taking part in tho making of a moving picture play film and had Just dropped a bomb on an neroplano thnt hnd been started across a canyon. Tho explosion of the bomb and destruction of tho noroplauo Just bolow created an air pocket and Stltes' machine was dashed to tho earth almost at the feet or somo 2,000 spectators. Tho picture shows StltOB' machine as It headed for tho earth. Bororo It struck tho ground It turned completely over. Tho photograph was taken by TJ. K. Whipple, staff photographer of tho Animated Weekly. |