Friday, May 9, 2014

9 May 1914

Mr. William Newell made the first parachute descent from an airplane in England on 9 May 1914. He jumped from the Grahame-White Type X Charabanc biplane piloted by Reginald Carr at an altitude of 2,000 feet and alit 2 min 22 sec later at the Hendon aerodrome.

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