Plane Drops Payload By Paratechnicon
•Received Thursday, 7 p.m. JjOJNHON, Oct. 6. The Daily Telegraph's military correspondent says a new heavy piece of air transport eqitipment known as "paratechnicon," was demonstrated for the first time in the R.A.F. show in Wiltshire. The big hoxlike paratechnicon has great possihilities because it not only permits the whole payload of a transport aircraft to be dropped without dispersion but also ohviates the need for individual parachute training. It is a metal container built on aerodynamic principles, fits as a blister to the belly of the aircraft, and is brought to earth by eight 4-feet parachutes. Its bottom, as it falls, opens to expose - t'flree g&ock absorfcerft.
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Chronicle (Levin), 7 October 1949, Page 5
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