Word: chute
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...they like to call "America's Wasserkuppe" (Elmira), Guenther Groenhoff, No. 1 soaring pilot of Germany, took off from the real Wasserkuppe, in the Rhoen Mountains, to ride before a thunderstorm. At about 250 ft. his sailplane's rudder carried away. Pilot Groenhoff jumped but his 'chute had no time to open. He plunged into a wood, was killed...
...Airplane & Motor Co. in an experimental observation plane Curtiss had built for the Army. He was to "fly its wings off" if he could. At 15,000 ft. he did. As the ship started boring earthward Pilot Ogden jumped, pulled his parachute ripcord. A flailing wing slashed the 'chute shrouds, Pilot Ogden plummeted to earth. The billowing 'chute drifted lazily in the wind, fluttered to earth an hour later, miles from where the body struck...
...these days throw steers-by horns. How necessity-danger-was responsible for Pickett's act is an interesting tale: It seems he vyas a "hand" on a Southwestern ranch, was helping load cattle, went into the car to "untangle" the load. Those starting the cattle into the loading chute did not give Pickett time to get out and back on the Runways or "prodding boards" but sent an infuriated beast down the chute just as Pickett started up out of the car door. The ancient cry, "The Lady or the Tiger," became "Pickett or the Bull." Pickett grabbed...
...shipful of passengers could not be safely evacuated because there is only one exit; novices would not know how to use a 'chute, probably would not jump if they had the chance. (Critic Graham: Let more exits be installed. Let passengers be instructed in 'chuting, as steamship passengers are taught how to use life preservers. Who can say whether or not they would jump...
...whose line Knute Rockne and seven others died in a crash last April) with a proposal that Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh, technical adviser of the company, write a reply for the next issue. The proposal was promptly rejected. But transport operators have not kept their objections to the passenger 'chute idea to themselves. Chief objections...