AIRMAN’S ADVENTURE
PARACHUTE JUMP IN FOG. Two farm hands working in a stable on a farm at Braishfield, Hampshire, were amazed to hear shouts for help loming from the top of a fog-shrouded oak tree near by. They ran to the spot and saw a figure dangling in the harness of a parachute. Running back to the farm, the men secured a 40ft. ladder and went to the airman’s rescue. The straps of the parachute had become so tight that the suspended airman’s circulation had been partially stopped and he could not move. The village postman then came to the help of the farm hands ami a rope was put round the man so that he could be hauled toward the centre of the tree. When released the parachutist was too weak to move and he had to be held up in the top branches of the tree until he recovered. The airman was .Sergeant Jobbing, of the Royal Air Force. He explained that he was flying with Flying-Officer Edwards from Peterborough to Old JarmE ejr station Ashen they ran short petrol through having to fly around in the fog. The .sergeant offered to jump out to lighten the aeroplane. He did so and landed in the tree. Meanwhile Flying-Officer Edwards brough his machine down undamaged in a field at Totton. near Southampton.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 108, 9 May 1934, Page 9
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