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Broadwick ready to drop from a Martin T airplane piloted by Glenn Martin.. Georgia Ann "Tiny" Thompson Broadwick (April 8, 1893 in Oxford, North Carolina – August 25, 1978 in Long Beach, California), [1] [2] or Georgia Broadwick, previously known as Georgia Jacobs, and later known as Georgia Brown, was an American pioneering parachutist and the inventor of the ripcord. [3]
Elsa Teresia Andersson (27 April 1897 in Strövelstorp, Sweden – 22 January 1922) was Sweden's first female aviator and stunt parachutist. She was the daughter of a poor farmer in Strövelstorp in the Scanian countryside. Her mother died when she was aged six. Her elder brother left the family and sought a new life in America.
Sally Kristen Ride (May 26, 1951 – July 23, 2012) was an American astronaut and physicist. Born in Los Angeles, she joined NASA in 1978, and in 1983 became the first American woman and the third woman to fly in space, after cosmonauts Valentina Tereshkova in 1963 and Svetlana Savitskaya in 1982. She was the youngest American astronaut to have ...
Unfortunately, the parachutist was pronounced dead at the scene.” Related: 80-Year-Old Woman Goes Skydiving for the First Time — and Sums Up the Experience with One Word
Gray rigging a parachute in August 1942. Adeline Gray, married names Johnson and Graf, (1915/16 – September 27, 1975) was an early American parachutist.She is thought to have been one of the only female parachutists in the United States before the 1940s.
A woman from Minnesota with over 265 skydiving jumps under her belt died during a jump on Friday, despite eyewitnesses saying her parachute fully opened.
A memorial is laid out at the Skating Club of Boston in Norwood, Mass., for six of its members who died in the crash of an American Airlines regional jet with a military Black Hawk helicopter over ...
Hilder Florentina Youngberg Smith (August 10, 1890 – January 11, 1977) was an aerial acrobat, parachutist, and pioneer aviator. She was one of California's first female pilots and the first woman to fly an airplane from LAX. Hilder was a member of a flying aerial team called The Flying Sylvesters. [1]