NEW AERIAL SPORT
BALLOON JUMPING
MAN' MAY LEAP FORTY FEET HIGH OYER 100 YARDS
(United Press Assn.—Copyright.) LONDON, Jan. 11. A novel aerial sport, balloon jumping, is expected shortly to bo introduced in Britain. It is already popular in America, says the Evening News.
A gas-filled balloon 15ft in diameter is attached to the shoulders of a man, whose weight is regulated by ballast until the balloon supports his whole weight, except four pounds. Tims the man has only to lift four pounds,' resulting in the energy normally used in jumping two feet high, over six feet, enabling a man to jump forty feet high, over a hundred yards. A jumper, assisted By a high wind, progressed across country in gigantic quarter-mile leaps. Raynham, the air pioneer, and Squadron Leader Wright, are hopeful of organising balloon • jumping cross-country races.—Sun.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXV, Issue 10304, 13 January 1927, Page 2
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139NEW AERIAL SPORT Gisborne Times, Volume LXV, Issue 10304, 13 January 1927, Page 2
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