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TRANUMS PARACHUTE DROP
HIS EFFORT DESCRIBED. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.j LONDON, May 25. After his dive, Tranuni said: “I fell nicely through a -hole in the clouds, tumbling head over ..heels; but my brain worked clearly. After tumbling a mile, I .straightened into a beautiful dive, with my body at tin angle of forty-five degrees,., but mist clouded my goggles. I- began to fall at tho rate of 144 miles an. hour. I pulled tlie ripcord 1 when my stopwatch showed I whs falling at the rate of 144 miles an hour. The. effect was terrific. The shock is hard to describe.. 1 felt as though my body were leaving my head behind in the clouds. When I suddenly popped back again; I floated tranquilly. I hit the grass at the rate of labout thirteen miles an hour. SWISS AIRMAN AT SYDNEY. SYDNEY, May 25. A 'Swiss airman, Carl Nauer, lias completed a long flight from Zurich h y arriving at Sydney this afternoon. He was welcomed by the Swiss Consel, and by many local, airmen.
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Hokitika Guardian, 26 May 1933, Page 5
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