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Some 6,000 ft. over a Detroit suburb last week Clement Joseph ("Clem") Sohn stepped from an airplane, spread his arms and legs, soared and glided down on the batlike wings which last month made him front-page news (TIME, March 11). At 1,000 ft. he folded his wings, opened his parachute, floated safely to earth...
Wrong again!! In refutation to Editor's note after Reader Clem's letter (TIME, March 18), Haile Selassie I's picture appeared on TIME'S cover, Nov. 3, 1930 issue...
...point, however, 1 would like cleared up. Is Richard B. Harrison the first Negro ever to . . . appear on the cover of TIME? . . . WILLIAM A. CLEM West Mansfield, Mass...
...until last week had any man actually flown under his own power with wings. That man was Clem Sohn, 23-year-old professional parachute jumper of Lansing, Mich. Strictly speaking, his adventure was not so much a flight as a sustained fall. Yet fly he did, on homemade wings, and landed on his feet to tell about...
Last week Clem Sohn went up in a plane, jumped at 12,000 ft. After a sheer drop of 2,000 ft. he spread his arms and legs, felt the air sustain him. Like a spread-eagled bat he slanted steeply downward, getting the "feel" of his wings. Bending his knees experimentally, he whipped over in an inside loop. Then he zoomed left & right, leveled off, dived, pulled up in a short climb. Satisfied he had succeeded in his experiment, he folded his wings, pulled the ripcord of his regular parachute at 6,000 ft., landed some three miles from...