QUARTERMILE LEAPS.

Grey River Argus, 13 January 1927, Page 6

QUARTERMILE LEAPS.

BALLOON JUMPING. THE LATEST CAZI. . LONDON, January 11. A novel, aerial sport, balloon jumping, is expected shortly to be introduced in Britain. Tt is alreadj r popular in America, says the “Evening News.” A gas-filled balloon fifteen feet, in diameter, is attached to the shoulders of a man whose weight is regulated by i ballast until the balloon supports his whole W’eiglit except four pounds; thus the man, has only to lift four pounds, resulting in the energy normally used in jumping two feet high over six feet enabling a man to jump forty feet high over a hundred yards. The jumpers, assisted by a high wind progressed across country in gigantic quarter-mile leaps. Raynham, the air pioneer, and Squadron-Leader Wright are hopeful of organising balloon jumping crosscountry races.