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...small form separated itself from the plane, a parachute billowed out. The ship crashed noisily on the roof of the old Machinery Building at Frankfort & Duquesne Streets, tumbled off and fell upon two unoccupied automobiles. Floating earthward Pilot Melvin Garlow of Pennsylvania Airlines got his 'chute fouled on a cornice of the building. He cut himself loose, reached the ground with only a sprained ankle. Before accepting aid, Pilot Garlow crawled into his wrecked plane, made sure his mail was safe...
Parachutes to lower disabled airplanes have long been under experiment and have been demonstrated with small craft (TIME, Sept. 15, 1930). But Army Air Corps engineers declare that a 'chute cannot be built big enough to support a heavily loaded transport. Instead, it became known last week, they are developing a combination of 'chute and detachable cabin. The 'chute jerks the cabin, intact with passengers, free of the fuselage of the disabled plane and lets it drop slowly. The pilot jumps from the cockpit (forward of the cabin) with his own 'chute while the remainder...
...grew worse. It was much as it had been on the first flight, when the storms had beaten them down to the very treetops. At the end of 20 hr. the end came. It was near Ufa, 700 mi. beyond Moscow. Doret bailed out, landed safely with his 'chute. Lebrix and Mesmin died in the crash of the Hyphen II. Doret was vaguely quoted as saying that the engine had exploded...
...Central Airport at Moscow plunked a bewildered hen and a dozen eggs. Neither the hen nor any of the eggs was damaged. Their fall, from an airplane 3,300 ft. high, was a demonstration of a new parachute designed by Soviet experts. Developed to support only small loads, the chute was of conventional design, but with a rubber hood affixed over its basket. The hood fills with air and expands in descent, decreasing the rate of fall to about 16.4 ft. per sec. (Ordinary rate of fall of U. S. made parachutes with a man of average weight...
Although it is expected that the express-chute will be useful in delivering perishable cargo wherever there is no airfield, its invention was brought about directly by the needs of the Moscow newspaper Pravda ('Truth"). Pravda prints local editions in Leningrad, Kharkov, Tiflis and Novo-Sibirsk by delivering matrices by airplane and dropping them by parachute. With ordinary parachutes the matrices frequently were smashed...