[Members] A little history

[Barb Farrell]

Thanks Larry!

On Fri, Mar 1, 2019 at 5:29 AM Larry Bartlett via Members <
members at lists.skydivelspc.com> wrote:

> 1 March 1912 <https://www.thisdayinaviation.com/1-march-1912/>
> March 1, 2019 <https://www.thisdayinaviation.com/1-march-1912/>Aviation
> <https://www.thisdayinaviation.com/category/aviation/>Albert Berry
> <https://www.thisdayinaviation.com/tag/albert-berry/>, Antony H. Jannus
> <https://www.thisdayinaviation.com/tag/antony-h-jannus/>, Benoist Headless
> <https://www.thisdayinaviation.com/tag/benoist-headless/>, Benoist Type
> XII School Plane
> <https://www.thisdayinaviation.com/tag/benoist-type-xii-school-plane/>, Kinloch
> Field <https://www.thisdayinaviation.com/tag/kinloch-field/>, Lambert–St.
> Louis International Airport
> <https://www.thisdayinaviation.com/tag/lambert-st-louis-international-airport/>
> , Parachute <https://www.thisdayinaviation.com/tag/parachute/>
> [image: Anthony H. Jannus and Captain Albert Berry, U.S. Army, prior to
> their flight, at Jefferson Barracks, 1 March 1912. (NASM)]
> <http://www.thisdayinaviation.com/1-march-1912/berry-albert-captain-u-s-army-and-jannus-albert-1-march-1921-jefferson-barracks/>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)
>
> 1 March 1912: At Jefferson Barracks, St. Louis, Missouri, Captain Albert
> Berry, United States Army, made the first parachute jump from an airplane.
>
> 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.
>
> 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).
>
> 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.
> [image: Captain Albert Berry parachuting from teh Benoist biplane over
> Jefferson Barracks, 1 March 1912. (NASM)]
> <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/>Captain
> Albert Berry parachuting from the Benoist biplane over Jefferson Barracks,
> Missouri, 1 March 1912. (NASM)
>
> The Associated Press reported the event:
>
> *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.*
>
> *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.*
>
> *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.*
>
> Captain Berry landed safely.
>
> Berry had previously parachuted from balloons. He was asked if he would
> repeat the jump from an airplane. “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.
>
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> “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.”
>
>                                                 — Charles Lindbergh
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