PAPER PARACHUTES
San Francisco, Dec. 17. It has been announced by the United States Navy Department that in future paper parachutes will be used in delivering foodstuffs and other supplies to troops isolated in combat areas. The parachutes can hold a load of 100 pounds when dropped from planes flying 180 miles an hour; are not affected by rain.
The Navy added: “The paper parachute costs approximately one-fifth as much as the standard human parachute and will effect a considerable saving in nylon and other fabrics used in ordinary escape parachutes.”
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 79, 25 January 1944, Page 4
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