7.61 MILES DROP
LIEUT -COL. W. LOVELACE TKSTLNG OXYGEN EQUIPMENT Testing his special self-developed oxygen equipment, Lieutenant-Col-, onel William LoA'claee, making his first jump, parachuted -10,200ft —one of the highest records, perhaps the highest- with an immediately-open-ing parachute. The 7.(51 miles drop occupied 23 minutes .11 seconds, through temperatures of ;">() degrees below zero. The equipment com-, prices a small cylinder sewn into the clothing containing 12 minutes 7 supply of oxygen. Speed is essential, because, at 10,000 feet unconsciousness occurs Avithin 15 seconds av it bout oxygen, and the special supply must last from the time the llier disconnects the regu'ar mask, is preparing to bale out and hurtles through the. oxygentlrn air. The War Department said that Colonel Lovelace' suffered no ill-ef-fects except a frozen hand a\ hen a glove, was torn off. Colonel Love'a-c, formerly of the Mayo Clinic, is President of the Aero Medical Association, and cc-winnev of the 10f2 Collier Trophy for aviation medical research. —''Wings," Septcinher, 1943*
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 34, 17 December 1943, Page 5
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1627.61 MILES DROP Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 34, 17 December 1943, Page 5
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