'His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork.'
Mae West (1893-1980)
Picture: Everett Collection / Rex Features
First woman to parachute from an airplaneIn 1913, the first successful parachute jump from an airplane by a woman was made by Georgia Broadwick, age 18. She jumped from an airplane flying at about 30 m.p.h. at an altitude of about 1,000-ft over Griffith Field, Los Angeles, California. Her silk parachute opened within about 100 feet of the initial free-fall.. Her pilot was Glenn Martin. The previous year, Capain Albert Berry had made the first parachute jump from an airplane 1 Mar 1912 over Jefferson Barracks, Missouri. Parachuting from a balloon had been accompished more than a century earlier in France.« |
