TWO NEW PARACHUTES.
(British Official Wireless.)
To Deliver Letters And Packages.
Eeceived This Day. Noon. _ RUGBY, April 28. . It is etated tliat Air Ministry experiments are heing made with two new types of parachute for delivoring mails and goods hy aeroplane. One of these types is a high veloeity parachute which opens automatically after falling a pre-detennined distance. The other type opens at a pire-deter-mined' distance from the ground. Both parachutes will probably he used when perfected to deliver letters and p'ostal packages throughout Great Britaiu.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 59, Issue 73, 29 April 1930, Page 7
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86TWO NEW PARACHUTES. Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 59, Issue 73, 29 April 1930, Page 7
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