DARING DESCENT.
FEAT OF WOMAN PARACHUTIST. (United Press Association—By Electrle Telegraph—Copyright > NEW YORK, April 28. After an aeroplane climb above Roosevelt Field for an hour and a half, Frances Rees, thirty-six-year-old parachutist, hurled herself from the ’plane at an altitude of 14,800 feet. She opened one of the two parachutes attached to her flying suit, making a safe landing, six miles distant, in fourteen minutes.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18555, 30 April 1930, Page 9
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65DARING DESCENT. Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18555, 30 April 1930, Page 9
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