TERRIFIC JUMP
(Press Assn.-
A PARCHUTE RECORD
-By Telegraph — Copyright).*
(Rec. May 25.) London, May 24. Diving head first from an Air Force bomber at a height of 27,000 feet fL parachutist, John Tranum, is believed' to have created a world's record at Necheravon, falling like a stone for 18,000 feet before ex> panding his parachute and thereafter drifting for five miles, narrowly esc^ping a tree in landing. The previous record (15000 ft) was held by an American.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/RMPOST19330526.2.45
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 541, 26 May 1933, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
78TERRIFIC JUMP Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 541, 26 May 1933, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
NZME is the copyright owner for the Rotorua Morning Post. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of NZME. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in