Word: chutes
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...closest calls came long before the war, when his two-seater pursuit plane caught fire during a training flight in Florida. The sergeant-observer was slow to hit the silk; by the time Chidlaw helped him out and jumped himself, the plane was so low that his chute barely had time to open. He hit hard, broke a leg. He still puts in a lot of time in the air. To check up on his command last year, he logged 739 flying hours in his carpeted, wood-paneled command C-54-enough mileage to cross the U.S. coast-to-coast...
...faculty ticket chute prevented 18 undergraduates from getting their Dartmouth game tickets on time, Frank Lunden, H.A.A. ticket manager, reported last night...
...snag resulted when one envelope caught in the chute and bottled up the other 17. When Lunden's office filled the orders for Saturday's game they missed these envelopes, which were in the recess of the chute...
...biplane leveled off at 5,000 ft. over the tawny fields of Burgundy. In the rear cockpit, a Russian parachutist carefully checked his equipment. When he spotted a white chalk cross on the ground below, he stepped off into space. For 20 seconds he fell free. Then his nylon chute blossomed overhead and he began to drift downwind, past his target. Tugging skillfully at his suspension lines, he spilled air from his chute and slipped back toward the cross. He touched down only four yards short of the mark...
...That Russian was playing on his chute like an organist," marveled a pop-eyed observer at the Second International Parachute Jumping Championships of Saint-Yan last week. "Eto Nichevo," shrugged the jumper. "It was nothing. Everyone on my team...