Word: chuted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...burst. Last month they leaped with him out of a Flying Boxcar over Munsan, plunged down to earth with paratroopers of the Army's 187th Regimental Combat Team. (As McPheron plunged into the prop blast, listeners heard him count, "1,000 . . . 2,000 . . . 3,000" then, as the chute cracked open: "Phew! It takes the wind...
...regiment which had been retreating north when cut off by "Operation Tomahawk." The Red guns were still going throughout the next morning. Helicopters threshed in to dusty landings in the D.Z. and whirred up again with wounded men. In the sunlight, the red, blue, green, yellow and white cargo chutes and mottled green personnel chutes, dropped the day before, gleamed vividly against dun-colored fields. A giant white chute that had floated an artillery piece to the ground rustled silkily in a tree...
...airborne forces have adopted faster troop planes, the opening shock has become more & more of a problem. At the Army's Airborne Center at Fort Bragg, N.C. this week, the Army Field Forces are testing a new parachute which may all but eliminate it. The new T-10 chute has a canopy two feet larger (30 feet) than the chute now in use (which slows the rate of descent) and, instead of being circular, is shaped like a soup bowl with an extended skirt around its edge (which cuts down on the pendulum-like motion of the parachute...
...difference between the two chutes is the new way of packing, which eliminates most of the opening jolt. Several paratroopers who have jumped with the new chute claim they actually had to look up to see whether or not it had opened. Reported one happily: "It's like coming down on a featherbed...
...speed up the process, five truck plows, four sidewalk plows and a number of snow throwers are used. These latter contraptions are wheeled along like lawn mowers. They scoop up the snow and spit it out a chute along the side of the walk...