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Show B1KS DEATH PARACHUTE Drop Through Space for Two Seconds, Then Pull String, He's Told WASHINGTON, Oct 9 The median medi-an in for parachute lumping from nlr-p nlr-p lanes, described in a statement of thej army air service, discloses the hit-ards hit-ards of the Jumper wherein hjs fcut ' has a "sporting ohanee" of ending in death 'The parachute used by aviators," jsays the service's statement, "Is folded. nugl Insiric ;i pack carried on thej back. The operator steps off the plane.! ..Hows himself a couple of seconds to, fall cloar of his machine, then pulls al win depending over his shoulder. This wire opens the spring doors of thej 'puck and 1 .buses a sina!i pilot chute 1 some cople of feet In diameter. This; pilot spring opens automatically and; catching the rush of air, draws the! main chute from the pack. "In the top of the main chute Is I .in automatic vent which, opening to1 .1 gvidth i.f !lvt- f. ei when the bis par-1 9801 flrs( unfolds, gives the air com-j pressed within a chance to escape and ens the danger of blowing thci chut.- apart When the fall has been i checked, rubber springs or shock ab- sorbers in the vent close It In until ' but a small hole remains. "At the atmospheric pressure where-1 in most pa I'achutes drops from ordinary ordin-ary altitudes are made the speed attained at-tained by the operator in his couple of; seconds fall is sufficient to create enough pressure under the pilot chute to cause it when released to' yank the bis one at once from Its pack Usually the operator is de-ending de-ending at normal speed after falling I ie n than 200 feet- How. ver, at high I altituni a the atmosphere has not suf-1 flcient effect on the pilot chute until I the operator has CaJlbli a great dis-1 tance and nit. lined a terrific speed. The shock w Io n the parachute does open is accordingly severe and ,there 1 ils quite a sporting chance of the silk! flying Into ribbons.'" |