WORLD RECORDS
FOR PARACHUTING
i United Press Association—By Flectn Te leg r a ph.—Co py nght.|
VANCOUVER, May 19
A world’s record for massed parachute jumping was established over Roosevelt Field, when twenty parachutists left the cabin and wings of a twin motored aeroplane' while a crowd of five ..thousand people watched the jumpers. They were bailed out of tlv cabin so fast that they were all in' the air together.
All of them landed safely. ' Armand Lisette, a cinema photographer, who had taken up a position out on the wing, kept his camera grinding away as his fellow jumpers shot downward. He then jumped himself, and lie continued making pictures as he: too floated down to earth. -• '
Henry Bushmeyer was th e last to leap from the plane. He made a delayed jump and he fell several thousand feet before opening, his parachute. He thus caught up with the * others before they reachd the ground.
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Hokitika Guardian, 21 May 1930, Page 3
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