PARACHUTE JUMPING
TWENTY IN Ain. A WORLD RECORD. ( REMARKABLE photography. ((United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received May 21, 10.5 a.m. VANCOUVER, May 20. | A world record for massed parachute jumping was established over Rooseivelt Field to-day, when twenty left the 'cabin and wing of a twin-motored acrojplane. All landed safely, i Armand Lisette, a cinema photographer, who had taken up a position out on the wing, kept his camera grinding as his fellow jumpers shot downward. He then jumped himself and 'continued making pictures as he, too, ifloated down to earth, i Henry Bushmeyer was the last to 3eap from the ’plane. He made a decayed jump and fell several thousand sfeet before the parachute opened. He fcaught up with the others before they STeached the ground, fe There were 5000 spectators.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 147, 21 May 1930, Page 7
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