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AUSTRALIA’S YOUNGEST PARACHUTIST. (United Press Association—Copyright.) (Received This Day, 9.5 a.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day. In addition to being Australia’s youngest girl pilot, Jean Burns, aged 17, to-day achieved the distinction of being the first woman parachutist. She successfully descended 3200 feet, near the Essendon aerodrome, after going up in a Moth aeroplane, having received parachute instructions from Felix Muller, the well-known parachutist, Joan Burns began flying with the Victorian Aero Club on her 17th birthday, and qualified for a licence in three months.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 58, Issue 36, 22 November 1937, Page 5
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