NOVEL AIR DESCENT
PARACHUTE AND RUBBER BOAT ' ' ■:' iSfEWPOKT, E. 1., Nov. 14. ' Sojmetning.iiew in aviation was tried ycstojday by an officer, at the training station, hero. - Descending by parachute- fr,om an aeroplane into the bay, h.c, reaped, the 1 vat ol ' in a rubber boat which he carried with him. ' At/ the; height/ of *JOOOi r t he leaped frohrthfc aeroplane and pulled the rip cord'. 6Jv the immediately. When* he had: descended 300 ft he released the valve of a compressed air tuiiK-hc-" carried; inflating the rubber lifeboal he had strapped about him. Ho fell "into the bay sitting in the boat. !'•■'■ '..' ; _,
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17145, 30 December 1929, Page 9
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