Broadwick, 1915, Dropping three thousand feet by parachute. The valuable achievement of Miss Tiny Broadwick

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Nineteen-year-old Tiny Broadwick of Ocean Beach, said to be from an aeronautical family, demonstrates "an aerial life preserver invented by her father" to military aviators at the Signal Corps Aviation School, North Island, San Diego.


Original title Dropping three thousand feet by parachute. The valuable achievement of Miss Tiny Broadwick
Simple title Dropping three thousand feet by parachute. The valuable achievement of Miss Tiny Broadwick
Authors
Date 1915-07-12
Countries US
Languages en
Keywords parachute glide, achievement, Tiny Broadwick, parachute, Signal Corps Aviation School
Journal Aerial Age
Related to aircraft? 1
Page count 1
Word count
Wikidata id

Sources

  • Brockett (1921), page 214, entry 6: Broadwick, Tiny. Dropping three thousand feet by parachute. The valuable achievement of Miss Tiny Broadwick. Aerial Age, Vol. 1, No. 17 (July 12, 1915), New York, p. 403, ill. (B2p0214e06)
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