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Employees of the Ontario department of lands and forests look over a new-type parachute being used to drop emergency supplies to persons stranded in i(...)
Employees of the Ontario department of lands and forests look over a new-type parachute being used to drop emergency supplies to persons stranded in i(...)

Employees of the Ontario department of lands and forests look over a new-type parachute being used to drop emergency supplies to persons stranded in i(...)

Date4/6/1943
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Original Toronto Star caption: Employees of the Ontario department of lands and forests look over a new-type parachute being used to drop emergency supplies to persons stranded in inaccessible places. The chute is made of special paper-called para-crepe-saving war vital silk and nylon. Weighing 21 ounces the chute can carry between 25 and 50 pounds and can be repacked and used again. It opens automatically in one to three seconds after leaving the plane.
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
Usage Rights Public Domain (Learn More)
Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0003602F
Somewhere in Ontario, at an R.C.A.F. training field, these men are learning the art of waging warfare from the skies. Handling parachutes is included (...)
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Best of luck and a happy landing
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Handbook of Newfoundland: containing an account of its agricultural and mineral lands, its forests and other natural resources
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The worst forest fires in province for five years, raging in and about Algonquin park, claimed the lives of three men yesterday, who crashed while flying supplies to firefighters
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