In photo #13 notice the man laying on his belly on the left side. That's Hugh R Robinson. A fellow pilot on Glenn Curtiss exhibition team. He came up with the idea of the sandbags linked with each other by rope to act as the arresting gear. He got the idea from doing a carnival act with a bicycle and motor cycle racing around the inside of a barrel. He used same method to slow down exiting the barrel.
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Show all commentsI meant photo #12!