AIRMAN' FALLS 1000 FEET.
PARACHUTE SLOW TO OPEN.
To drop like a stone for 1000 feet before his parachute opened was the recent experience of Australian Flying Officer H. D. L. McGilvery, when passing his parachute test at Point Cook. He jumped from 2000 feet, and shortly after leavinp th 'plane pulled the rip cord by which the parachute ia opened. The umbrella only partly opened, the folds becoming twisted. The airman was equipjped with an emergency parachute, hut did not attempt to use its confident that his test equipment would open. When 1000 feet from the ground ma confidence was justified. The folds untwisted, the umbrella openrd. and the airman, after the first sudden jers, swung gently in the air and slowly descended safely to earth.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 179, 30 July 1926, Page 10
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