"If you need one and haven't got one, you'll never need one again."Air Corps Proverb.
The chronicle of the Caterpillar Club appears this week in a new book Jump! by Don Glassman,graduate of the University of Missouri, journalist. A "Caterpillar" is a flyer who has dropped over the side of a disabled or lost planelike a butterfly wriggling out of its cocoonand swung down through space to safety with parachute mushrooming over his head.
A parachute is a hollow hemisphere of strong, light silk or cotton, diameter varying from 22 ft. to 28...
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