FROM 27,000 FEET UP
PARACHUTIST'S DIVE
MR. TRANUM TELLS STORY
LONDOX, May 24. Describing his experience in diving from an aeroplane at a height of 27,000 feet, the well-known parachutist, Mr. JolinTranum, after. landing, said: "I fell nicely through a hole in the clouds, tumbling head over heels, but my brain worked clearly. After tumbling a mile I straightened into, a beautiful dive, Tvith my body at an angle of 45 degrees, but mist clouded my goggles. I began to fall at the rate of 144 miles au hour. I pulled the ripeord when my stopwatch showed I was falling at the rate of 144 Biiles an hour. The effect was a tenific shock, hard to describe. I felt as though my body was leaving my head behind in the clouds, when suddenly I popped back again. I floated tranquilly and hit the grass at the rate of about 13 miles an hour."
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Evening Post, Issue 122, 26 May 1933, Page 7
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