PARCELS BY AIR
DROPF^D WITH PARACHUTE
(From "The Post's" Representative.) NEW YORK, Mud^August. Illustrating a new method of delivering parcels, a case of typewriters was dropped the other day by parachute from an aeroplane. The machines landed lightly and were not damaged. They were dropped from an all-metal three-motor aeroplane, which is being used by a typewriter company to make deliveries all over the United States. .The new Hying truck/as it is called, carries a shipping clerk, or. supercargo, to throw the typewriters out when necessary. It-.started with its first load from Hartford Connecticut, for Cuba, dropping supplied on the way. "
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Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 75, 26 September 1927, Page 9
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101PARCELS BY AIR Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 75, 26 September 1927, Page 9
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