Word: chuting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Santa Barbara (Calif.) hotel a maid threw a bundle of Mrs. John McGill's dirty linen down a laundry chute to the basement four stories below. The bundle contained Mrs. McGill's infant, eight months old, who was unharmed...
...Commerce last week announced that, beginning July 1, it would test and certificate parachutes as well as planes. With new types of parachutes coming on the market in rapid succession, parachute accidents have been increasing. To obtain certificates of approval, manufacturers will not have to submit each & every 'chute to inspection, but one of each type offered for sale. Minimum test requirements...
...Chester Pickup. At 10,000 ft. Pilot Pickup put his plane into a power dive. At 7,000 ft. the terrific pressure shattered the windshield, the glass cutting Pickup's face, momentarily stunning him. Unable to regain control, Pickup motioned Dittman to jump with him. Dittman, whose 'chute failed to open until he had dropped to 1,000 ft., landed on the roof of an open hearth furnace of Carnegie Steel Co., directly alongside the wreckage of the plane. Questioned by mill police, Dittman heard...
...until after the War, in January 1919, when Major E. L. Hoffman assumed charge of parachute research at McCook Field, Dayton, Ohio, did the modern development of the chute really begin. Within a few months he produced the first successful "free-type" chute, to be worn on the back and opened by the wearer as he falls clear of his machine. It was followed by the seat-type, now in general use, first tested by Leslie Irvin, who jumped merely to prove that man does not lose control of his faculties in falling unhindered through space...
...disabled airplane, from deep in his consciousness comes the reflex which makes him pull the rip cord, located over his heart, and open up his life saver. Psychologically it is almost impossible to forget to pull. Three hundred feet of altitude is the safe minimum in which the chute can be used, although jumps of less height are on record. The highest jump on record is one of better than 24,000 ft. At that height, the jumper had to have oxygen for breathing. The longest delayed jump was from a height of 11,000 ft. The experimenter pulled...