signed TINY BROADWICK parachute AUTOGRAPH postcard

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signed TINY BROADWICK parachute AUTOGRAPH postcard TINY BROADWICK AUTOGRAPH POSTCARD IN 1913 BROADWICK WAS THE FIRST WOMAN TO PARACHUTE FROM AN AIRPLANE DATED DECEMBER 23, 1970 SIZE: 3 1/2 X 5 1/2 INCHES VINTAGE ITEM - NOT A REPRINT COLOR POSTCARD OF JOHN F. KENNEDY SPACE CENTER CONDITION: Very good Biography from Wikipedia: Tiny Broadwick (April 8, 1893 in Oxford, North Carolina – 1978 in California) , or Georgia Broadwick, was a pioneering parachutist. She was nick-named 'Tiny' as she weighed only 85 pounds and was four foot tall. Born Georgia Ann Thompson, at the age of 15 she saw Charles Broadwick's World Famous Aeronauts parachute from a hot air balloon and decided to join the travelling troupe. She later became Broadwick's adopted daughter. Among her many achievements, she was the first woman to parachute from an airplane on Jan. 9, 1913 (jumping from a plane built and piloted by Glenn L. Martin, 2,000 feet over Griffith Park in Los Angeles) and the first woman to parachute into water. In 1914, she demonstrated parachutes to the U.S. Army. On one of her demonstration jumps, she got tangled in her static line and had to cut herself free, becoming the first person to free-fall. By the time of her retirement from jumping in 1922, she was said to have made over 1,100 jumps. She is one of the few female members of the Early Birds read more

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