"Flying Death"

[howardwhite 6]

These are pictures from a 1930 German article (which was linked on the dz.com German page.)
Interestingly, the story uses the term "Taucher der Lüfte," which I guess can be loosely translated as "skydiver" -- the earliest use of this term I've found.

HW

[JohnRich 4]

Wow! What an exit. Those guys were tough. But as the last photo shows, it's worth all the effort.

[3331 137]

In that last picture Tod 4, the helmet looks French.

I Jumped with the guys who invented Skydiving.

[davidlayne 5]

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In that last picture Tod 4, the helmet looks French.

That's what I thought, World War 1 French, as worn in the trenches.

I don't care how many skydives you've got,
until you stepped into complete darkness at
800' wearing 95 lbs of equipment and 42 lbs
of parachute, son you are still a leg!

[bozo 0]

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In that last picture Tod 4, the helmet looks French.

That's what I thought, World War 1 French, as worn in the trenches.

Like when you were there , David ?

bozo
Pain is fleeting. Glory lasts forever. Chicks dig scars.

[grimmie 186]

That dude kissing the girl was an early Golden Knight I suppose!!

[Niki1 1]

Does the 3rd image (tod2) show the invention of the powere line landing?

Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossilbe before they were done.
Louis D Brandeis

Where are we going and why are we in this basket?

[Mischello 0]

Hi Guys!

Here is the link to the Original HI-Res Scan of the whole article...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mischello/4275779907/

Have fun & enjoy!

Greetings from Cologne, Germany
Michael

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fly like a beagle

[skypuppy 1]

I'm guessing that this would be the first power line landing -- Grant Morton, Venice Beach California, 1912. The second jumper ever out of an airplane.

But there could have been balloon jumpers who landed in wires, too. I know a jumper in London Ontario in the 1890's landed on rooftop and broke her back....

If some old guy can do it then obviously it can't be very extreme. Otherwise he'd already be dead.
Bruce McConkey 'I thought we were gonna die, and I couldn't think of anyone

[skypuppy 1]

Interestingly, tod1 also appears in the book Nine Lives: the story of the parachutist John Tranum, opposite page 134. Most of the pictures have some sort of assignation as to where they came from, but that one does not.

Tranum was Danish and spent the last few years of his life in Europe.

If some old guy can do it then obviously it can't be very extreme. Otherwise he'd already be dead.
Bruce McConkey 'I thought we were gonna die, and I couldn't think of anyone

[paralola 0]

Good foresight by the author to the feature of swooping, he called the jumper 'parachute pilots'

Always happy to fall out of a plane

[lapster 0]

Howard - the last picture....5 second rule being applied. Regards