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Lindbergh ax-jumped on to the ice chute to try to grab him, but Hopf's body flashed by. It left a trail of blood for 800 feet. Hopf was still breathing when they reached him. Lindbergh eased Hopf on to lashed skis for the tortuous descent...
...Petersburg, Fla., a medical officer, had hooked up with jumpers on the right side of the plane when a red light flashed the five-minute warning earlier in the flight. But as the plane pitched in the backwash of planes ahead, he felt airsick, reached up, unhooked his chute from the static line and sat down. His chute or pack caught in the bucket seat. He sat, struggling but immovable, as the abandon-ship bell shrilled, as his fellow jumpers tumbled out, and as the plane crashed...
...static line and equipment and did not intend to jump. He stayed behind "yelling to everybody we had the long bell" until all jumpers were clear. When he looked out the door, he saw that the plane was only 150 feet from the earth. He was wearing a chute with a hand-operated ripcord. "I looked at the ground and I knew there was no one-thousand-one, one-thousand-two, one-thousand-three-that's what you count before you pull the cord-time...
Coolly, Arrington balanced in the doorway. "I pulled the ripcord in the door so the wind would snatch me out. The wind did." He went down face first, looking at the ground. When he was below the level of the treetops, he was still falling like a stone. The chute opened fully when he was only a few feet above the ground, so late that his feet were above his head when he hit. In a split second, the plane roared through the trees above him. slammed into the ground 50 yards away (killing an eight-point, 150-lb. buck...
...nautical miles; its service ceiling: 50,000 ft. Besides fighting other fighters, it. can serve as a fighter-bomber. Structurally, the F-100 makes liberal use of titanium. It has an elaborate air-conditioning system to protect the pilot from the heat generated by high speed, and a drag-chute keeps it from running off small or slippery fields...