I have just read this report which comes verbatim from 4.2.41 from an officer undertaking his first parachute jump: he jumped 4th, after his friend Major HO Wright... The next recollection I have is of Major Wright, with parachute open and canopy fully filled, some one hundred and fifty feet *above* me. My parachute, sir, had not then fully opened, and I had the gravest doubts as to whether it would function before it had been repacked. I was unable to devise a method of repacking it in the limited time at my disposal. As I was also unable to think of any satisfactory means of assisting the contraption to perform the functions which I had been led to suppose were automatic; in my submission I had no alternative but to fall earthwards at, I believe, the rate of thirty two feet per second, accelerating to the maximum speed of one hundred and seventy six feet per second.... This I did... and having dropped a certain distance, my parachute suddenly opened and I made a very light landing. Awed...
Posted on: Mon, 01 Dec 2014 15:15:20 +0000
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