Word: jumpers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Originally a parachute jumper famed for playing the saxophone during his jumps, the Black Eagle said, on his return to Harlem from Ethiopia last July...
Barnstormer. Roy ("Jack Dare") Ahearn, famed barnstormer, parachute jumper and stuntflyer, head of the Red Wing Flying Circus, took a French Albert parasol monoplane aloft over Teterboro, N. J. At 4,000 ft. he dove the tiny craft in an attempted outside loop. The plane's 40-h. p. motor would not pull out of it. Four times Pilot Ahearn climbed slowly back to make another try. On the final attempt he threw the throttle open, held the plane's nose down longer than before. The wing tore loose, fluttered away. Un- checked, the fuselage bored down into the earth...
...Albans, L. I., Bobby Brown, 4, carries sewn on his jumper front this sign: "Please do not give any food to Bobby...
...pole vault, Sutermeister will have as his chief opponent Noyes. The results of the event are uncertain. The Crimson jumper has shown ability in past performances, but since the H-D-C indoor meet last winter, he has experienced a decided slump. In the broad jump, Donner of Dartmouth, and Rowe will be the contestants...
...parachute opens, the hemisphere offers such air resistance to gravity that descent is checked to about 16 ft. per second. This amounts to a force equal to that of jumping from a ten-foot fence, often sufficient to sprain an ankle. Chutes can be partially guided when the jumper wishes to avoid landing in a clump of trees or a pond, by pulling the shroud lines on the side toward which he wants to go. In a high wind, if the jumper does not unharness himself before he lands, as he must do when landing on water, he will...