Word: parachutist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is no "Mr. Irving" to profit from all this. A round-faced studious onetime parachutist named Leslie L. Irvin, tried to give his name to the company in 1919, but a stenographer added a final "G" on the incorporation papers. Leslie Irvin, now vice president of the company, was in the midst of things last week, at Letchworth on the active British front...
...miles above Daytona Beach two years ago, a slim, sandy-haired professional parachutist from Lansing, Mich, named Clement Joseph ("Clem") Sohn stepped from a plane, spread homemade "bat wings" of canvas sewed between his legs and arms, swooped, banked, looped for 4.000 ft. before floating to earth by para chute-first man to "fly" with his own wings. Thereafter Clem Sohn made a tidy living doing his spectacular stunt at fairs and air meets. Only one man tried to copy him-Parachutist Floyd David, who plummeted to death at Flint, Mich, on his maiden...
Same day at nearby Flint, another young stunter prepared to emulate Sohn. He was Floyd Davis, 22, parachutist and sailplane enthusiast. A pilot at 16, Davis had 230 hours flying time in 1929 when airport officials had him grounded for stunting. Just reinstated, he was now anxious to test a pair of homemade wings he had spent five months constructing...
Last day of the races was marred by two more deaths. Attempting a spot parachute jump, a parachutist fouled his shrouds in the tail surfaces of the plane he was leaving. Plane and tangled jumper plummeted into Lake Pontchartrain. The plane's pilot was also killed. On the bright side, James R. ("Jimmy") Wedell, an adopted favorite son of Louisiana who builds fast little Wedell-Williams ships at Patterson, cleaned up most of the speed prizes without much competition. He won three firsts, did not break the record he holds for land planes (305 m.p.h.), but smashed the record...
...second before he stepped off the plane's wing (see upper cut). But the open, straining mouth did not express terror or anguish; Corporal Cain was merely gasping in one last deep breath of rushing air before his plunge. Another view (see lower cut) showed what the parachutist sees as he looks down to select a landing spot...