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...notion that a person who falls from a great height dies before striking the ground, was long ago exploded. But there remains room for curiosity about how it feels to fall for miles & miles. Last week new testimony came from one John Tranum, professional 'chute jumper in England, who fell farther than any man had ever fallen and lived to tell the tale. Jumper Tranum stepped out of a Royal Air Force plane about 4 mi. above Salisbury Plain. One-two-three miles he plummeted toward the earth's vague green saucer. With one hand he manipulated...
...supply. The Bonettes were commemorating that event, but their balloon relied on its original supply of hot air. At about 3,000 ft. it struck a layer of cold air, began to shrink and descend. That should have been the signal for King Louie to jump with his chute, but now he felt he must stay and look after the camera. Faster & faster the bag dropped until a ground wind caught it, dragged it across the town of Valley Stream. As Bonette & camera dropped safely upon the roof of a lumberyard, the bag fouled a telephone pole, spilling out such...
...Angeles, Parachute Jumper E. S. ("Spud") Manning challenged Jumper Harold ("Bud") Brandon to a contest to see who could drop nearer the earth before opening his chute. Plummeting from the sky, Jumper Brandon pulled his ripcord at 100 ft. altitude, won the match, was dashed to death upon the ground...
...dozen Marine planes came screaming down upon the field in a formation dive. All pulled out of it except one. piloted by Lieut. Glenn M. Britt, which continued to shoot earthward at 300 m.p.h. About 250 ft. above the ground Lieut. Britt jumped clear, pulled his ripcord. His 'chute barely billowed open before he struck the ground, just after his plane crashed in front of the grandstand. Lieut. Britt picked himself up, hurried to a microphone, greeted the crowd: "Hello, everybody! I'm not hurt, thank...
...transport men regard as libelous. Nearest historical approach to the legend is the case of the late "Al" Wilson, Hollywood stunt pilot, who jumped from a spinning Sikorsky bomber, leaving in the ship a man who was manipulating smokepots for a cinema shot. The passenger also wore a 'chute but made no apparent move to jump. The Professional Pilots' Association investigated, concluded that Pilot Wilson had jumped without warning, drummed him out of its ranks. Last September at the National Air Races in Cleveland. Pilot Wilson died of injuries from a collision of his oldtime Curtiss "pusher" with...