EGGS DROPPED FROM PLANE
A searching test of anew emergency provisions parachute was given at Hawera recently when from 800 ft a carton of eggs, with parachute attached, was dropped from a plane, writes a correspondent. The carton with its brittle freight reached ground safely on the local aerodrome, and not on« of the eggs was broken.
Emergency provision parachute^ have been in use by the Air Force' for a long time. They were used by Squad-ron-Leader Burrell, of the N<ew Zealand Air Department, at the time of the floods in Hawke's Bay, and at the big air pageant at Rongotai Aerodrome last year one was dropped for demonstration purposes.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 133, 8 June 1939, Page 5
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110EGGS DROPPED FROM PLANE Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 133, 8 June 1939, Page 5
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