DROP FROM AEROPLANE.
———♦ PARACHUTIST'S EXPLOIT. THREE THOUSAND FEET FALL [bt telegraph.—press association.] CHRISTCHURCH, Sunday. A parachute descent was made by A. E. Eastwood, at Addington Show Grounds, from a height of about 3000 feet. He was taken up in an aeroplane by Captain Euan Dickson, and dropped from it by means of two parachutes. A north-east wind that was blowing caused him to miscalculate his landing place, with the result that he came down on top of a cottage in Hillmorten, about half a mile from the Show Grounds, where 8000 people wore waiting for him. He sustained a sprain to his left ankle as he struck the roof of the cottage, but otherwise was uninjured.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18026, 27 February 1922, Page 8
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