It has always been believed that a person who falls through the air for any considerable distance loses consciousness before he reaches the ground. This theory, it is true, had never been verified, since persons so falling have always lost consciousness upon impact with the ground or street, never to regain it. Last week, two army aviators—Sergeant Randall L. Bose, Corporal Arthur Bergo—set themselves to disprove the belief. At Mitchel Field, L. I., they ascended to a height of 3,000 feet in a bombing plane, leaped out with closed parachutes. A large...
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