Talk:Adeline Gray (parachutist)

33d jump?
It seems implausible that someone who had been part of a stunt parachuting team and had run a parachute school would only have jumped 32 times before testing the nylon parachute. Any other sources on this?Bill (talk) 07:54, 4 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Apparently so, I've added a contemporary newspaper report that notes it was her 33rd jump - Dumelow (talk) 08:46, 4 May 2021 (UTC)

Only female parachutist? Not so.
The article says "She is thought to have been the only female parachutist in the country until the early 1940s". But that's clearly not correct, considering that Tiny Broadwick made a number of parachute jumps years earlier. Paul Koning (talk) 20:11, 6 August 2021 (UTC)


 * I made this change just now after falling down the rabbit hole of early women aviation pioneers. This passive reference originated in the (erroneous) obituary. Tiny Broadwick was absolutely active decades earlier. Brad Patrick (talk) 13:37, 16 April 2024 (UTC)