JUMP FROM AEROPLANE
C. D. Vinot, a young postman, had a bet with a colleague that Jack Dempsey would beat Gene Tunney in the championship fight at Chicago. According to the terms of the wager the losfer was either to pay the winner twenty-five dollars ox; jump from an aeroplane, at a height of 2,000 ft. Seeing no reason why _ he should lose twenty-five dollars, Vinot, who had never been in an aerodrome before, announced that he would make a parachute jump. This he did, _ making a Successful landing. He said' he had not trained for the feat, but he had attended several performances of a film in whcih the hero dived from an aeroplwM.
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Evening Star, Issue 19762, 12 January 1928, Page 4
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115JUMP FROM AEROPLANE Evening Star, Issue 19762, 12 January 1928, Page 4
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