Record #:

8522

Author(s):

House, Karen Olson

Abstract:

Georgia Thompson Brown of Granville County was a pioneer of aviation. Better known as Tiny Broadwick, she made her mark not by flying airplanes, but by parachuting from them. Broadwick saw her first parachute jumper at a circus, and from that moment, she wanted to do nothing else in life but be a jumper. Her first jump was from a hot air balloon in 1908 at the North Carolina State Fair. In 1913, she became the first woman to parachute from a plane and the first to jump from a hydroplane. Between 1908 and 1922, she made over 1,000 jumps. She received the John Glenn Medal in 1964, and in 1976, she was inducted into the OX5 Hall of Fame, along with the Wright Brothers and Charles Lindbergh.

Source:

Carolina Country (NoCar HD 9688 N8 C38x), Vol. 39 Issue 2, Feb 2007, p26-27, il

Subject(s):

Skydivers--North Carolina--Biography; Brown, Georgia Thompson (Tiny Broadwick), 1893-1978

Record #:

9380

Author(s):

Pearce, T. H.

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.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 42 Issue 8, Jan 1975, p8-12, il, por

Subject(s):

Women stunt performers; Parachuting; North Carolina--History--French and Indian War, 1755-1763; Brown, Georgia Thompson (Tiny Broadwick), 1893-1978

Record #:

14546

Author(s):

Goerch, Carl

Abstract:

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.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 13 Issue 27, Dec 1945, p3-5, f

Subject(s):

Parachuting; Skydivers--North Carolina--Biography; Brown, Georgia Thompson (Tiny Broadwick), 1893-1978

Record #:

16840

Author(s):

Crow, Terrell Armistead

Abstract:

The North Carolina Museum of History and Division of Archives and History staff began planning an exhibit in 1984 to highlight the history of North Carolina women. This exhibit, titled \"The Task That Is Ours,\" would cover the topic for the last 400 years and be the hallmark of the North Carolina Museum of History's new building. Only one previous exhibit promoted the history of one woman, Georgia Thompson Broadwick, a female parachutist in the early 20th-century.

Source:

Carolina Comments (NoCar F 251 C38), Vol. 35 Issue 4, July 1987, p97-106, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Women--History; Brown, Georgia Thompson (Tiny Broadwick), 1893-1978; North Carolina--Women