<div dir="ltr">Thanks Larry!</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Mar 1, 2019 at 5:29 AM Larry Bartlett via Members <<a href="mailto:members@lists.skydivelspc.com">members@lists.skydivelspc.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><h1 class="gmail-m_492350464890693199entry-title" style="box-sizing:border-box;clear:both;line-height:1.3;margin:0px 0px 5px;font-weight:400"><a href="https://www.thisdayinaviation.com/1-march-1912/" rel="bookmark" style="box-sizing:border-box;text-decoration:none;font-size:19px;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" target="_blank"><font color="#000000">1 March 1912</font></a></h1><div class="gmail-m_492350464890693199entry-meta" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px auto;max-width:1040px;width:588px;clear:both;padding:0px"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><span class="gmail-m_492350464890693199date" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-right:20px"><a href="https://www.thisdayinaviation.com/1-march-1912/" title="Permalink to 1 March 1912" rel="bookmark" style="box-sizing:border-box;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">March 1, 2019</a></span><span class="gmail-m_492350464890693199categories-links" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-right:20px"><a href="https://www.thisdayinaviation.com/category/aviation/" rel="category tag" style="box-sizing:border-box;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Aviation</a></span><span class="gmail-m_492350464890693199tags-links" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-right:20px"><a href="https://www.thisdayinaviation.com/tag/albert-berry/" rel="tag" style="box-sizing:border-box;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Albert Berry</a>, <a href="https://www.thisdayinaviation.com/tag/antony-h-jannus/" rel="tag" style="box-sizing:border-box;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Antony H. Jannus</a>, <a href="https://www.thisdayinaviation.com/tag/benoist-headless/" rel="tag" style="box-sizing:border-box;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Benoist Headless</a>, <a href="https://www.thisdayinaviation.com/tag/benoist-type-xii-school-plane/" rel="tag" style="box-sizing:border-box;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Benoist Type XII School Plane</a>, <a href="https://www.thisdayinaviation.com/tag/kinloch-field/" rel="tag" style="box-sizing:border-box;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Kinloch Field</a>, <a href="https://www.thisdayinaviation.com/tag/lambert-st-louis-international-airport/" rel="tag" style="box-sizing:border-box;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Lambert–St. Louis International Airport</a>, <a href="https://www.thisdayinaviation.com/tag/parachute/" rel="tag" style="box-sizing:border-box;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Parachute</a></span></span></div><div class="gmail-m_492350464890693199entry-content" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px auto;max-width:1040px;width:1024px;padding:0px 376px 0px 60px"><a href="http://www.thisdayinaviation.com/1-march-1912/berry-albert-captain-u-s-army-and-jannus-albert-1-march-1921-jefferson-barracks/" rel="attachment wp-att-15666" style="box-sizing:border-box;text-decoration:none;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" target="_blank"><font color="#000000"><img class="gmail-m_492350464890693199wp-image-15666 gmail-m_492350464890693199size-full" src="http://static.thisdayinaviation.com/wp-content/uploads/tdia//2013/02/BERRY-Albert-Captain-U.S.-Army-and-JANNUS-Albert-1-March-1921-Jefferson-Barracks.jpg" alt="Anthony H. Jannus and Captain Albert Berry, U.S. Army, prior to their flight, at Jefferson Barracks, 1 March 1912. (NASM)" width="580" height="369" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; vertical-align: middle; max-width: 100%; height: auto;"></font></a><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Antony H. Jannus and Captain Albert Berry, U.S. Army, prior to their flight, at Kinloch Field, Missouri, 1 March 1912. The parachute is packed inside the inverted cone. (NASM)</span><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 24px"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">1 March 1912: At Jefferson Barracks, St. Louis, Missouri, Captain Albert Berry, United States Army, made the first parachute jump from an airplane.</span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 24px"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Pilot Antony H. Jannus and Captain Berry took off from Kinloch Field, a balloon-launching field in Kinloch Park, (now, Lambert–St. Louis International Airport, STL) and flew aboard a 1911 Benoist Type XII School Plane, 18 miles (29 kilometers) to the drop zone at Jefferson Barracks. The airplane was a pusher biplane which was based on a Curtiss pusher, and is also called the Benoist Headless.</span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 24px"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Barry had his parachute packed inside a conical container mounted beneath the airplane’s lower wing. They climbed to an altitude of 1,500 feet (457.2 meters).</span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 24px"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">When the reached the desired altitude and were over the barracks’ parade grounds, Berry attached the parachute to a harness that he was wearing, then lowered himself on a trapeze-like bar suspended in front of the wings. He pulled a lanyard which released him. The parachute was opened by a static line.</span></p><a href="http://www.thisdayinaviation.com/1-march-1912/berry-albert-captain-u-s-army-parachutes-from-benoist-airplane-at-jefferson-barracks-st-louis-mo-1-march-1921/" rel="attachment wp-att-15667" style="box-sizing:border-box;text-decoration:none;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" target="_blank"><font color="#000000"><img class="gmail-m_492350464890693199wp-image-15667 gmail-m_492350464890693199size-full" src="http://static.thisdayinaviation.com/wp-content/uploads/tdia//2013/02/BERRY-Albert-Captain-U.S.-Army-parachutes-from-Benoist-airplane-at-Jefferson-Barracks-St.-Louis-MO-1-March-1921.jpg" alt="Captain Albert Berry parachuting from teh Benoist biplane over Jefferson Barracks, 1 March 1912. (NASM)" width="463" height="640" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; vertical-align: middle; max-width: 100%; height: auto;"></font></a><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Captain Albert Berry parachuting from the Benoist biplane over Jefferson Barracks, Missouri, 1 March 1912. (NASM)</span><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 24px"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">The Associated Press reported the event:</span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 24px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><em style="box-sizing:border-box">ST. LOUIS, March 1. —For the first time in the history of a heavier-than-air flying machine, a man leaped from an aeroplane at Jefferson barracks this afternoon and descended safely to earth in a parachute. Capt. Albert Berry made the spectacular leap and it was witnessed by hundreds of cheering soldiers.</em></span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 24px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><em style="box-sizing:border-box">Berry and Pilot Jannus left the Kinlock aviation field in the afternoon in a two-passenger biplane, carrying beneath the machine, in a specially constructed case, a large parachute. With practiced hand Jannus steadied the machine, Berry gave a quick jerk of a rope and, while the aeroplane, first bouncing up like a cork, suddenly poised and steadied itself.</em></span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 24px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><em style="box-sizing:border-box">Hundreds of watchers held their breath as Berry shot toward the earth, the parachute trailing after him in a long, snaky line. Suddenly the parachute opened, the rapidity of the descent was checked and, amid cheers, the first aviator to make such an attempt lightly reached the ground.</em></span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 24px"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Captain Berry landed safely.</span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 24px"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Berry had previously parachuted from balloons. He was asked if he would repeat the jump from an airplane. <span style="box-sizing:border-box">“Never again! I believe I turned five somersaults on my way down. . . My course downward. . . was like a crazy arrow. I was not prepared for the violent sensation that I felt when I broke away from the aeroplane.</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 24px"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><br></span></span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 24px"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><br></span></span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 24px"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><br></span></span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 24px"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><br></span></span></p></div><br><div id="gmail-m_492350464890693199AppleMailSignature" dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">“Sometimes, flying feels too godlike to be attained by man.   Sometimes, the world from above seems too beautiful, too wonderful, too distant for human eyes to see.”</span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">
</p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">                                                — <span style="font-style:italic">Charles Lindbergh</span></span></p></div></div>
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