Word: ripcords
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...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...
...discussed what little we had read about jumping-to try to get your back to the wind before you hit-to loosen your buckles before landing in water-to cover your face if landing in trees-not to pull the ripcord until you had counted ten. The big question in all minds was: 'Will my chute open?' That is a terrible question...
...student paratrooper stepped into space, 700 ft. over Britain. The plane zipped away at 80 m.p.h. The paratrooper counted, pulled the ripcord-continued to fall like a stone. His chute did not open properly. The 154 Ib. paratrooper plummeted the 700 ft. in 10 seconds, hit the earth at 50 m.p.h...
...leading five amphibians on an 18,000-mile flight through South America, the first of the Pan-American aerial good-will tours. Over Buenos Aires another plane crashed into Dargue's. While he was still too bewildered to think straight, he was thrown from his wrecked plane. His ripcord caught in a bit of debris which opened his parachute and he floated to safety...
Otherwise Mr. Starnes agreed with Captain Armstrong. Except for a momentary blackout when he pulled the ripcord, his mind was sharper and quicker than when his feet were on the ground. Like Dr. Armstrong, he had no "gone" feeling, which one gets when an elevator begins to fall too rapidly. His heartbeat and blood pressure were normal at all times...