DROP FROM THE AIR.
A SPECTACULAR THRILL. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Christchurch, Last Night. A very thrilling spectacular event ’ was provided at the Lyttelton regatta to-day. when Mr. A. E. Eastwood made a triple parachute descent from an aeroplane piloted by Captain Ewan Dickson. The machine came over Lyttelton at a height of 4000 feet and after it had manoeuvred over the harbor the .parachutist climbed out on the wing, from which he dropped. Each parachute opened promptly and the final drop was made on to an open paddock just behind Lyttelton.
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Taranaki Daily News, 27 December 1922, Page 4
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91DROP FROM THE AIR. Taranaki Daily News, 27 December 1922, Page 4
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