Talk:Adeline Gray (parachutist)

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Did you know... that Adeline Gray was the first person to jump using a nylon parachute?

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The result was: promoted by MeegsC (talk) 14:49, 29 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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... that Adeline Gray was the first person to jump using a nylon parachute? "She was the first person to test the nylon parachute, and it brought her nationwide fame." from: Eschner, Kat (June 6, 2017). "Meet the Daredevil Parachutist Who Tested the First Nylon Parachute 75 Years Ago". Smithsonian Magazine. Retrieved 12 April 2021.
- ALT1:... that as a child Adeline Gray jumped from her hayloft with an umbrella as a parachute? "Back home in Oxford, I used to take an umbrella and jump off the hayloft holding it over my head like a parachute" from: Eschner, Kat (June 6, 2017). "Meet the Daredevil Parachutist Who Tested the First Nylon Parachute 75 Years Ago". Smithsonian Magazine. Retrieved 12 April 2021.

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/1992 Football League Fourth Division play-off Final
Comment: There's a free image in the article but it isn't great

Moved to mainspace by Dumelow (talk). Self-nominated at 07:01, 14 April 2021 (UTC).[reply]

New enough, long enough, interesting, QPQ provided, hook in article and followed by citation to hook fact. FYI Comment- nylon history is interesting...I once wrote on this surgeon who used his nylon (new at the time) shirt sleeve as a blood vessel graft and the patient survived 9 years. Whispyhistory (talk) 11:59, 14 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

33d jump?

It seems implausible that someone who had been part of a stunt parachuting team and had run a parachute school would only have jumped 32 times before testing the nylon parachute. Any other sources on this?Bill (talk) 07:54, 4 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Apparently so, I've added a contemporary newspaper report that notes it was her 33rd jump - Dumelow (talk) 08:46, 4 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Only female parachutist? Not so.

The article says "She is thought to have been the only female parachutist in the country until the early 1940s". But that's clearly not correct, considering that Tiny Broadwick made a number of parachute jumps years earlier. Paul Koning (talk) 20:11, 6 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I made this change just now after falling down the rabbit hole of early women aviation pioneers. This passive reference originated in the (erroneous) obituary. Tiny Broadwick was absolutely active decades earlier. Brad Patrick (talk) 13:37, 16 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]