PARACHUTIST’S JUMP
LANDING ON CHIMNEY STACK. Accepting a “dare” from friends Albert Gourd, a reservist of the Royal Air Force, parachuted, in bad conditions, from an aeroplane 6000 ft up, and landed unhurt on a chimney-stack. Gourd was making his second flight. He had talked of parachuting, but had failed to obtain permission to make a jump. However, he had made up his mind. Friends jeered: “You will never do it.” As the aeroplane flew over the Avon suspension bridge at Bristol Gourd immediately climbed out of the cockpit and leaped. It was blowing half a gale at the time, and the question where he would land was obviously more uncertain than in normal jumps. "I went over - the side head first,” he said later. “After that, it was easy, but I have a bad headache now.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 August 1938, Page 6
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