Word: chuted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ancient riding boots were scuffed and patched; the brown leather chaps over his faded Levi's had seen better days. But he had the casual swagger of a champ. He ran a cool eye over Gold Dollar, a mean-looking palomino, and climbed aboard. Outside the chute, San Francisco's Cow Palace echoed to the voice of the announcer: "The first three-time all-around cowboy champion in history-Jim Shoulders...
...have time to get out of their planes and open their parachutes. Last week the Navy gave a spectacular demonstration of a British ejection seat that may become the American carrier pilot's best friend: even at minimum altitudes the seat automatically ejects the pilot and opens his chute...
...above his head and yanked a handle. The pull snapped down a black curtain (to protect his face from wind blast) and fired three cartridges beneath his seat. Half a second after Hughes was catapulted straight out of the plane, another cartridge fired to drag out a 22-in. chute, which pulled out a 60-in. chute. The second chute, in turn, pulled out the main, 24-ft. chute as the seat fell away...
...time his main chute opened, Hughes was down to 40 ft., although he had somersaulted as high as 101 ft. A bare six seconds after he reached for his handle. Hughes hit a plowed field at the end of the runway. For a long second he lay still. Then he bounced up and started to shake hands with the crowd of Navymen that sprinted up to him. ''You feel a terrific crash on your rump, and the next thing, you are out on the end of your chute,'' gasped Hughes. "I feel wizard, though. Positively wizard...
...speeds up to 120 m.p.h.. the body is remarkably stable in this position. Properly executed, a sky dive is spinproof (accidental spins can whirl or tumble the body up to three times a second, black out the jumper) and keeps the diver on his belly, so his backpack chute can open without fouling. In addition, the sky diver becomes a sort of low-efficiency glider. By moving his arms and legs, he can change position in flight. even pull off a figure eight by use of hands and arms before cracking his chute and drifting to earth under...