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...miles above Daytona Beach two years ago, a slim, sandy-haired professional parachutist from Lansing, Mich, named Clement Joseph ("Clem") Sohn stepped from a plane, spread homemade "bat wings" of canvas sewed between his legs and arms, swooped, banked, looped for 4.000 ft. before floating to earth by para chute-first man to "fly" with his own wings. Thereafter Clem Sohn made a tidy living doing his spectacular stunt at fairs and air meets. Only one man tried to copy him-Parachutist Floyd David, who plummeted to death at Flint, Mich, on his maiden...
Last week Clem Sohn was in Vincennes, France, to do his specialty for 100,000 spectators at an air circus. While the crowd howled with delight, Sohn stepped from his Farman at 10,000 ft., pirouetted toward the ground at 2,000 ft. per minute...
Married. Rita Mitchell, 22, daughter of Manhattan Stockbroker Charles Edwin Mitchell (Blyth & Co. Inc.), onetime (1929-33) board chairman of National City Bank; and President George Adam Rentschler Jr., 44, of General Machinery Corp. (Hamilton, Ohio), brother of National City's President Gordon Sohn Rentschler and of Board Chairman Frederick Brant Rentschler of United Aircraft & Transport Corp.; in Manhattan...
...Like Sohn's in principle, Davis' wings resembled a moth's rather than a bat's. Fastened to his hips by hinges, they were rigid, oval-shaped, flat, with small ailerons at the tips controlled by handgrips. No webbing was sewn between Davis' legs. Instead he had them bound together, with a small moth-like tail-wing fastened to each ankle. In compliance with Federal regulations, he wore two parachutes-one for emergency in case the other failed to open...
...Sohn thought Davis must have lost consciousness while spinning downward, hence failed to open his emergency 'chute. Said he : "I am afraid that more casualties will be reported if many people without experience in delayed jumping try to fly with their own wings...