PARACHUTE SAVES 'PLANE
LOS ANGELES, August 25. Naval observers declared that complete safety of airplane travel has been assured for the near future as t!ie result of the test made in which a giant parachute brought a plane and pilot safely to earth from .an altitude of SliCGft. The ship was lowered from the skies after the engine had been filled and made a " pancake landing." A part of the. undercarriage was broken and a. propeller blade was snapped. Lieutenant P. 1). Connelly, of naval air station at San Deigo. declared the experiment an unqualified success. The mammoth parachute, spreading 174 yards of silk, is fiie invention of Harry A. Douchett, chief machinist's mate~in the United States navy.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17156, 5 October 1926, Page 7
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