Talbot, Frederick Arthur Ambrose, 1880- · New York, Funk and Wagnalls company · leaf 332
haracteristic. This was brought home veryconvincingly in the course of a demonstration. An aeroplanewas travelling at ioo miles an hour air speed—130 miles anhour over the ground—at a height of less than 400 feet, whenMajor T. Orde Lees, A.F.C., R.A.F., who was aboard,made the jump with the… … of 2 I ^■s The Life-Belt of the Air This means that he was being drawn or sucked forward at aspeed of ioo miles an hour, and, in fact, was dragging theparachute. But the latter instantly commenced its de-signed duty. It began to open, and as it did so in the air-stream naturally acted in the manner…
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