PARACHUTE JUMPING
HEW WORLD RECORD TEA’ MEN LEAVE ’PLANE AT ONCE. Fress Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. VANCOUVER, April 16. (Received April 17, at 9.10 a.m.) A new world record for successful leaps from an aeroplane was established on Sunday at the Rantoul (Illinois) training field, when ten parachute jumpers of the Army Air Corps School leaped safely from a trimotored sixteen passenger 'plane in Bsec at an altitude of 2,000 ft. The Virginia Army Corps held the previous record with nine men.—UniW^rvice.
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Evening Star, Issue 19843, 17 April 1928, Page 6
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