Word: chute
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...have time to get out of their planes and open their parachutes. Last week the Navy gave a spectacular demonstration of a British ejection seat that may become the American carrier pilot's best friend: even at minimum altitudes the seat automatically ejects the pilot and opens his chute...
...speeds up to 120 m.p.h.. the body is remarkably stable in this position. Properly executed, a sky dive is spinproof (accidental spins can whirl or tumble the body up to three times a second, black out the jumper) and keeps the diver on his belly, so his backpack chute can open without fouling. In addition, the sky diver becomes a sort of low-efficiency glider. By moving his arms and legs, he can change position in flight. even pull off a figure eight by use of hands and arms before cracking his chute and drifting to earth under...
Marchette Chute, literary historian Litt.D...
Saturday, the Yardling tennis team bowed to Yale, 7-2. Harvard's two wins came at second and third doubles where the teams of Denny Briggs and Dick Chute, and Mike Humphries and Pete Rient won from their Eli counterparts...
...first thrill of the afternoon came when Dartmouth freshman Charlie Hotchkiss, who was making only the ninth jump of his career, landed 39 ft., 9 in. from the target center. Hotchkiss used a Derry Steerable chute, which allows more control over horizontal movement than the chute used by Weatherly-White...