January 24, 2024
TINY BROADWICK parachute BIOGRAPHY
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TINY BROADWICK parachute BIOGRAPHY TINY BROADWICK UNSIGNED PERSONAL 1908 - 1915 PARACHUTE BIOGRAPHY WITH HER RETURN ADDRESS LABEL ATTACHED IN 1913 BROADWICK WAS THE FIRST WOMAN TO PARACHUTE FROM AN AIRPLANE ITEM IS UNSIGNED! ONE PAGE SIZE: 8 1/2 X 11 INCHES UNDATED - CIRCA 1950's? VINTAGE ITEM - NOT A REPRINT CONDITION: Acceptable, folding and tape on tears. OTHER RARE WOMEN PILOT ITEMS ON EBAY THIS WEEK - DIRECT LINK 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
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