The literary digest . Butmaking a jumj) in a paracliute from a sea-plane going a hundred miles an hour—well,thats something else again, as they say inthe Marine (^orps. The system is yet so new that w(^ haventtaken the trouble to have regular harnessfor the i)araehute jumpei^p made. Wemake em ourselves by tying roi)es in sucha way tht^t when the jump is made, theknotted ropes, which pass around boththighs and about the waist, form a cradh*. To make the jump at all, and to learnthe best me?i(ns of making that jump inthe safest vSffl^jit was, of course, necessar\-to make it ^fe in; a (iKiide man
The literary digest . Butmaking a jumj) in a paracliute from a sea-plane going a hundred miles an hour—well,thats something else again, as they say inthe Marine (^orps. The system is yet so new that w(^ haventtaken the trouble to have regular harnessfor the i)araehute jumpei^p made. Wemake em ourselves by tying roi)es in sucha way tht^t when the jump is made, theknotted ropes, which pass around boththighs and about the waist, form a cradh*. To make the jump at all, and to learnthe best me?i(ns of making that jump inthe safest vSffl^jit was, of course, necessar\-to make it ^fe in; a (iKiide manner. Thething to be ed*was the fact thatit was possible to jump out of an airplanewith a parachute. We talked it all o\er—or, rather, Captain Page and CaptainMims did,the talking—and decij^jLed llautthe best .way tq arrange the thing wotildbe to wad*f^) ^the ])arachuteiu; a con-tainer wliji^i would be fastened jusibeneat h t he fuselage of the seaplane. h>omthis would run a rope which would be.
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