PARACHUTIST’S DEATH
-THREE THOUSAND FOOT FALL Recd This Day, 11.55 a.m.) PARIS,’ August 14. James Williams, was killed when his parachute failed to open, and he dropped like a stone for 3000 feet. It was reported from Paris on March 8 last, that James Williams, the airman who made a delayed drop of 26,504 feet with a parachute on March 4 had established a new delayed drop record. He leapt out of an aeroplane at 35,075 feet and opened his parachute 650 feet from the ground. The free drop occupied 2min 20sec. and the parachute drop 18sec.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 August 1938, Page 6
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97PARACHUTIST’S DEATH Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 August 1938, Page 6
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