Airplane Landed by Parachute from 500-Foot Height

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Showing how disabled planes may be brought down without crashing if properly equipped, Jimmy Goodwin, of Newport, Ky., landed an airplane by parachute recently as a special feature of an air meet in Maine. For making the unconventional descent, the craft carried a ‘chute fifty-two feet in diameter which was opened 500 feet above the ground.

Title (Dublin Core)
Airplane Landed by Parachute from 500-Foot Height
Subject (Dublin Core)
en
en
Article Title and/or Image Caption (Dublin Core)
Airplane Landed by Parachute from 500-Foot Height
Language (Dublin Core)
eng
Temporal Coverage (Dublin Core)
[+]World War II
Date Issued (Dublin Core)
1940-12
Is Part Of (Dublin Core)
Popular Mechanics, v. 74, n. 6, 1940
pages (Bibliographic Ontology)
848
Rights (Dublin Core)
Public Domain (Google digitized)
Source (Dublin Core)
Google books
Archived by (Dublin Core)
Enrico Saonara
Alberto Bordignon (Supervisor)
Spatial Coverage (Dublin Core)
[+]United States of America