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Colonel Roscoe Turner and Guy Ball prepare the giant parachute, Los Angeles, 1935

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Title: Colonel Roscoe Turner and Guy Ball prepare the giant parachute, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: May 1935
1935-05
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: US
UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
A uniformed Colonel Turner and Guy Ball hold a corner of the white parachute as they examine it. Guy holds a coil of rope over one shoulder.
Photograph appears with the article, "Airliner To Be Lowered By Giant 'Chute in Test," Los Angeles Times, 09 May 1935: A1.
For the first time in history a transport plane will be lowered by a parachute from an altitude of 5000 feet. The plane will be flown by Roscoe Turner and the parachute, 90 feet in diameter, is being made by parachute expert Guy Ball.
Text from newspaper caption: Guy Ball, parachute expert, and Col. Roscoe Turner examine giant chute being prepared for test in lowering commercial passenger plane weighing 4500 pounds.
Handwritten on negative: Col. Roscoe Turner R to L. Guy Ball
Text from negative sleeve: TURNER, ROSCOE
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_3985
ark:/21198/zz002cpps5
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Parachutes--American--California--Los Angeles
Military officers--American--California--Los Angeles
Military uniforms--American
Air pilots--American--California--Los Angeles
Ball, Guy, 1890-1974
Turner, Roscoe, 1895-1970
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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