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Show Giant Parachute Lowers Plane Los Angeles. A parachute, fifty feet across, invented by Harry J.. Doucett, chief machinist's mate in thB United States navy, Tuesday, in its initial test here, brought a plane and pilot to earth from an altitude of 2500 feet after the engine had been killed. The plane landed on a hillside and broke a propeller blade and its running run-ning gear, but otherwise no damage was done. R. Carl Oelge, former army air pilot, took the plane into the air for the parachute test. Pilots and observers ob-servers of twenty-four planes which flew here from the naval air base at North Island, San Diego, where the inventor Doucett is stationed; two planes from Rockwell army field, Santa San-ta Monica, witnessed the trial flight I and drop. At an altitude of 2500 feet ' Oelge killed his engine, cut the giant parachute folded on top of his plane, and let the machine drop. j I |