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Parachuting
A similar lot of press and other photographs illustrating the development of the parachute. Images include the French pioneer record holder Renee Vincent, Second World war Douglas DC3 aircraft dropping parachutists over mountainous terrain, the accident to 20-year old Fern Meyers over Litchfield, Illinois, when she jumped from a hot air balloon, 31 May 1937, the celebrated Miss Blenie La Salter, experimental parachuting at Le Bourget 1926, Collette Duval after one of her record breaking jumps, a Russian parachuting from a glider at Tsélinograd, Owen Quinn diving off a skyscraper in New York 1975, Royal Air Force publicity photographs, the fatal plunge of a Stampe aircraft, its tail plane having been severed after a parachutist became entangled, Hendon air display practice drops from Vickers Vimy aircraft, supplies being dropped to civilian inmates of a Japanese prison camp by the U.S. Air Force May 1945, many others similar, and a quantity of press cuttings relating to parachuting (100 approx. plus press cuttings contained in two ringbinders and folder)
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A similar lot of press and other photographs illustrating the development of the parachute. Images include the French pioneer record holder Renee Vincent, Second World war Douglas DC3 aircraft dropping parachutists over mountainous terrain, the accident to 20-year old Fern Meyers over Litchfield, Illinois, when she jumped from a hot air balloon, 31 May 1937, the celebrated Miss Blenie La Salter, experimental parachuting at Le Bourget 1926, Collette Duval after one of her record breaking jumps, a Russian parachuting from a glider at Tsélinograd, Owen Quinn diving off a skyscraper in New York 1975, Royal Air Force publicity photographs, the fatal plunge of a Stampe aircraft, its tail plane having been severed after a parachutist became entangled, Hendon air display practice drops from Vickers Vimy aircraft, supplies being dropped to civilian inmates of a Japanese prison camp by the U.S. Air Force May 1945, many others similar, and a quantity of press cuttings relating to parachuting (100 approx. plus press cuttings contained in two ringbinders and folder)
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