SAFE WAY TO DROP EGGS
LONDON, March 13. ‘ A bomb for dropping supplies to persons stranded in out-of-the-way places is one of the latest examples of the conversion of war weapons and parachutes into peace devices. Fitted with a time fuse, it is aimed like a high explosive, but'at 400 feet a parachute opens and gently brings it to earth. Another invention is a one-man parachute container, adapted from a German device, which will drop doctors to isolated air crashes and wrecks. Airborne - lifeboats, experimented with during the war, have- now been perfected and will drop with a cluster of parachutes. The latest parachute container is so well padded and falls so slowly that when a dozen eggs were dropped in a test, not one was broken. America is concentrating on para chutes for dropping the passengers in their seats from crippled airliners.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 68, Issue 143, 30 March 1948, Page 4
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