Jumps from plane

Usage examples of parachutes.

Vacuum tubes and parachutes simply went ill together, and fragile radios had cost the experimental paratroop arm dearly earlier in the war.

But the parachutes that he manufactured right here in Tuscola were strapped to the backs of every paratrooper who ventured into the skies of France on that fateful day.

But no Shackleton would dare fly low over the island and a high-level drop would almost certainly result in the parachutes being blown out to sea.

He also asked them to arrange for the life-saving apparatus to be brought to the airfield and the parachutes to be got ready.

The parachutes moved across the sky above my head, growing larger, but drifting very fast.

All they saw when they came out of the rain squall and circled the bay were two parachutes lying side-by-side like two white mushrooms close under the first scree slope on Keava.