SUCCESSFUL PARACHUTE DESCENT.
Christchurch, Feb. 26. Mr A. E. Eastwood, at the Addington Show Grounds, made a successful parachute descent from'a height of about 3,000 feet. He was taken up in an aeroplane by Captain Euan Dickson, and dropped from it by means of two parachutes. A north-east wind that was blowing caused him to miscalculate his landing place, with the result that he came down on top of a cottage in Hillmorton, about half-a-mile from where 5,000 people were waiting for him on the Show Grounds. He sustained a sprain to his left ankle as he struck the roof of the cottage, but otherwise he was uninjured.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2398, 28 February 1922, Page 2
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108SUCCESSFUL PARACHUTE DESCENT. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2398, 28 February 1922, Page 2
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