He Jumps For
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The Fun Of It
A parachuting bank clerk has hi hopes of establishing a parach.i club in Port Moresby.
HE is Commonwealth Bs employee Bill Mitchell w chose Apex Fair week-end recen to visit Rabaul and make a 3,0 ft bailout to give a fillip to Bismarck Archipelago and Bougs ville Aero Club.
The jump was Mitchell’s 14tH and his hardest landing, he said. A/ height of several hundred feet aboi Rabaul’s Lakunai airport he v caught in an air current and drifi the length of the field before la:j ing.
Licensed private pilot How:\ Dennis flew Mitchell to Rabaul a Cessna 170 which the local c: hopes to be able to purchase asj trainer.
Both jumper and pilot are office of the Papua Aero Club operatt from Port Moresby, where I Mitchell hopes to start a parachutf club. He already has some prospj tive members.
ABOVE; Bailing out is Bill Mitchell's sport.
He hopes others will take up the same hobby.
LEFT: Silhouetted above the Mother's slopes, Mitchell comes in for a heavy landing at Rabaul.