To test the theory that a person in normal physical condition falling from a great height.- loses consciousness in the'"course of his descent two American military aviators plunged head first from' an aeroplane at/an altitude of3000ft. They did not pull the cords 'which opened their parachutes until the.y had dropped 1000 ft or more. Both reported that at' no • time did they feel their senses leaving them. They are Convinced that they would have retained ..full possession of them until they "struck tlio 1 ground had they continued to fall- so far.
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Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18407, 13 June 1925, Page 7
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