PARACHUTE RECORD.
TEN MEN IN EIGHT SECONDS. AMERICAN AIRMEN’S FEAT. (United Press Association—Copyright). (Received This Day, 9.10 a.m.) VANCOUVER, April 16. A new world’s record for successful leaps from an aeroplane was established on Sunday at Rantoul (Illinois) training field, when 10 parachute jumpers of the Army Air Corps school leaped safely from a tri-motored 16-passenger ’plane in eight seconds, at an altitude of 2000 feet. The Virginia Army Corps held the previous record with nine men.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 48, Issue 159, 17 April 1928, Page 5
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