JUMP FROM AEROPLANE.
DESCENT IN A PARACHUTE. A THRILL FOR CHRISTCHURCH. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Christchurch, Last Night. A. E. Eastwood, at the Addington showgrounds made a successful parachute desttjnt from a height of about 8000 feet. He was taken up in an aeroplane by Captain Evan 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 about half a mile from where 5000 people were waiting for him on the showgrounds. 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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Taranaki Daily News, 27 February 1922, Page 5
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118JUMP FROM AEROPLANE. Taranaki Daily News, 27 February 1922, Page 5
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