HOW IT IS DONE.
*,< And now,' Professor Baldwin, I want you to let me into a professional secret, e if you don't very much mind. Newspaper men, you know, are notoriously inquisitive. I, should very much- like to know on what you base your calculations for a safe descent? That you have some definite calculation is a fact that speaks for itself. You are not the sort of, man to trust your life to chance, with some thousands of feet in the scale against you." " I reokpn you've about summed me up there. , I'll not so tired of my life that I run^any needless risk. This drop from the clouds looks much worse than it is. , That's the secret of its fascination • for the crowd. The safety or danger of the whole business, depends upon the amount of surface pressure brought to bear upon the parachute.
I make an allowance of two feet surface* pressure for every pound of my own weight. ' That- is a sufficiently,, liberal- margin to' satisfy me", and T think you'll adniit I'm as much interested in the success of the experiment as anyone." As there was no gainsaying this, I readily acquiesced in the Professor's views,!
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Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 338, 30 January 1889, Page 5
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201HOW IT IS DONE. Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 338, 30 January 1889, Page 5
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