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Abstract:
Tiny Broadwicke, of Henderson, became a worldwide attraction as a parachutist starting with her first jump at the North Carolina State Fair in Raleigh in 1908. Later she became the first woman to parachute from a plane and the first person to make a premeditated “Free Fall†parachute jump.
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Do you know the name of the first person in the world who ever made a parachute jump from a hydroplane or an airplane? She was a woman and her name is Mrs. Harry Brown; she is known as Tiny Broadwick and narrow escapes from death are too numerous for her to recall.