Word: ripcord
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...used not only by Italian sportsmen but also by Italian sportswomen. To open the stadium on Italy's Armistice Day last week, Il Duce approached with quick strides a monstrous object 55 ft. tall, swathed in bunting and sprouting upward from a base of equal height. Pulling the ripcord, Italy's Dictator revealed a 300-ton obelisk of Carrara marble embellished with no inscription except nine letters in high relief-MUSSOLINI. Apropos a gymnastic exhibition by both sexes which next took place in the stadium, Signer Leonardo Arpinati, Undersecretary of Interior and head of the Italian Olympic Committee...
...Harvey Ogden, crack test pilot for Curtiss Airplane & Motor Co. in an experimental observation plane Curtiss had built for the Army. He was to "fly its wings off" if he could. At 15,000 ft. he did. As the ship started boring earthward Pilot Ogden jumped, pulled his parachute ripcord. A flailing wing slashed the 'chute shrouds, Pilot Ogden plummeted to earth. The billowing 'chute drifted lazily in the wind, fluttered to earth an hour later, miles from where the body struck...
...propellers into pretzels-one blade piercing the envelope. Before the ground crew could capture the ship an up-draught bounced it away again into the gale, ballooning crazily and quite out of control. Over the flatlands near Flushing Bay Pilot Dixon signalled Mechanic John Blair to yank the ripcord which would open a 25-ft. gash in the top of the helium cell, dropping the blimp instantly. Mechanic Blair leaned from a gondola window, put his weight on the cord, fell out to his death. The Columbia collapsed in a tangle of metal and fabric. From the wreck was dragged...
...record, was again qualifying for a nickname he earned two years ago? "Flying Fool.". . . Again he pulled the little ship over in a loop, began to straighten out after the dive?when a wing tore off, then another . . . Pilot Jackson died in the wreckage, one hand hooked in the ripcord of his 'chute. Builder Walter Beech was later quoted as saying he had warned Jackson not to stunt the ship which was not designed to withstand violent maneuvers...
...painted white so that Corporal Cain would know which to start on when the other was empty. Last week the Herex printed a full page of its pictures-excellent pictures, but not quite so good as the Germans', possibly because Corporal Cain had to think about pulling the ripcord of his 'chute, whereas the Germans merely jumped and let their 'chutes open by means of ropes made fast to their planes...