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    Tiny Broadwick: The First Lady of Parachuting
    Tiny Broadwick: The First Lady of Parachuting
    Tiny Broadwick: The First Lady of Parachuting
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    Tiny Broadwick: The First Lady of Parachuting

    By Elizabeth Whitley Roberson

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    “Roberson has done her research well, compiling what she found about the four-foot eleven-inch parachutist into an interesting, often inspiring biography.” —Booklist
     
    North Carolina was the site of the first powered airplane flight by the Wright brothers in 1903. Only ten years later, the state could also claim the first parachute jump from an airplane by a woman affectionately known as “Tiny.”
     
    At just over four feet tall and weighing a mere eighty pounds, Tiny married at the age of twelve and was abandoned by her husband one year later. As a result, she worked fourteen-hour shifts at a local cotton mill for forty cents a day and walked home three times daily to feed her baby.
     
    In 1903, she saw a parachute descent from a hot-air balloon for the first time at the Johnny J. Jones Carnival in Raleigh. Charles Broadwick’s thrilling feat inspired her to join the carnival, and after her first jump from a hot-air balloon, she was hooked.
     
    This story of Tiny’s life follows the history of aviation from the early novelty of flight, through the tremendous developments in air travel during World War II, all the way to the Apollo 13 launch in 1970. Tiny was inducted into the Aviation Hall of Fame alongside such aviation pioneers as Charles Lindbergh and the Wright brothers in 1976.
     
    Little has been written about this pioneer in aviation history, whose contributions, through improvements to the design of parachutes and demonstrations for soldiers, made flying airplanes safer for pilots during World War II.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateMay 31, 2001
    ISBN9781455613137
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      The world's 1st Skydiver was Ms. Broadwick. From Tiny Broadwick came delayed falls. Freefall followed. Crude gizmos of flax and linen were fathered by bicycles and land lore. And the sky conquest went on. Albeit more than before. Georgia "Tiny" Broadwick, an American balloon-jumper and barnstormer, was the first woman to make an airplane jump, near San Diego, California; subsequently completing over 1100 jumps. In 1914, with the first free-fall, Tiny Broadwick’s jump with a delayed opening of the parachute began (made possible) Sport Parachuting. This pioneer parachutist made parachuting history repeatedly. This book chronicles that. Good photographs, some provided by Tiny & family.

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